Carolina Chocolate Drops | Folk review

Derby TheatreNot many bands could get away with calling their album Genuine Negro Jig, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops are a case apart – a group of young African-Americans who perform ­antique jug band tunes with ­swaggering hip-hop attitude. The music's potency comes from the fact that the trio – fiddler ­Justin ­Robinson, banjo-player ­Rhiannon ­Giddens and multi-tasker Dom ­Flemons – got it from the source. The song ­introductions often pay tribu...

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