The Carolina Chocolate Drops

The three full-time people from the string music group referred to as the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Dom Flemons on guitar, jug, and harmonica, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle, and Justin Robinson on banjo and fiddle — Sule Greg Wilson sometimes sits in on percussion) met in 2005 on the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in NEW YORK, drawn jointly by their shared love of bluegrass, “jass,” jug music, and prehistoric country and rock. The acoustic music artists play a exciting combination of specifications and originals in these designs, showing off tongue-in-cheek, old-timey clothes and a spirited irreverence that hardly disguises their specialized service. Their 2006 debut, Dona Got a Ramblin Brain, was released for the Music Machine label to wide acclaim, plus they documented three additional 3rd party albums before their initial widely distributed record, Genuine Negro Jig, made an appearance on Nonesuch this year 2010. The group’s following release for the label, which made an appearance early in 2011, was a four-song EP documented with the brand new York City-based Romanian Gypsy punk music group the Luminescent Orchestrii. Robinson still left the group that same season and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins was added. The group augmented issues additional with New Orleans-based cellist Leyla McCalla and defeat box expert Adam Matta for 2012’s full-length Departing Eden, that was produced by Pal Miller. Afterwards that season, they added the tune “Daughter’s Lament” towards the Craving for food Video games soundtrack. In 2013, the Drops announced that first member Dom Flemons will be departing to pursue a single profession. Cellist Malcolm Parson and multi-instrumentalist Rowan Corbett had been introduced in to the lineup as well as the music group continuing to tour, though frontwoman Giddens would deliver her very own single debut in early 2015.