Carolina Chocolate Drops: Southern Voices - 2011

The Carolina Chocolate Drops playing live at the Hoover Public Library's Southern Voices event

[@albertthayer6183]

Just heard them today for the first time...they are wicked cool!!!

[@sdthrapp]

Love watching Rhiannon blossom into perhaps the greatest singer of our time -

[@charlesfrahm]

sdthrapp j

[@pfroge]

This is American roots music.....I am so proud to be American and love being from St. Louis where we are lucky enough to hear this kind of music all the time from many sources such as.......Off Broadway for live music......and KDHX 88.1 FM on the radio......we also have many festivals and events to be able to enjoy this wonderful music.

[@grahamstrom6894]

+sharon walker yep carollina has a pretty great music scene for this stuff as well...and in general

[@ericcorse]

What a talented group, glad to see some young folks playing old time music.

[@foamwing]

Simply phenomenal.

[@sandramobley3313]

they are soooo talented. Great voices, excellent instrumentalist, and all-around performers!

[@williamstall4420]

Great incredible musicians! Loved it!

[@walterc.charlescampbelllll8485]

Love that sweet music

[@appamtnculture1302]

This is so incredibly good. I'd pay good money to see this show live.

[@GordyInMA]

Just Incredible! I am speechless!

[@2ANDERSON5420]

Love it! I am late to CCD, hope they go on and on!

[@billfewer1505]

I am obsessed with the CCD collective. Great music and great musical education. I never knew about the "Black Banjo" heritage until I listened to CCD. Bless you for opening my mind as well as my ears.

[@thefayyazis]

love them

[@whb1959]

great music indeed !

[@jcksnjy]

Love all of your videos Jack. Thanks for the hard work.

[@Nieves1313]

Sounds great!

[@sydneydwoskin4950]

yall are so groovy this band is one of my new favorites and it's a history lesson at the same time wow. i got sent here via cedrik watson

[@56FVee]

love it

[@ThePapasmurf1946]

Some people are gifted with a great talent. Rhiannon has several, all great. I'm a devoted fan.

[@intercat4907]

"This seems a little tame, boys. I'm gonna speed it up a little bit, all right?" Child, if you were my daughter and that song were a car, I'd have your keys SO fast ... Wonderful, as always.

[@thomaschalk5446]

Do I hear some “Bonaparte’s Retreat” in there? Love the fiddle and the fiddler, too!

[@marlenejones1433]

Rhiannon's talent hidden

[@ianlambert8034]

Even with the volume up full I can hardly hear this. Anybody else having trouble?

[@tonybrown6716]

What exactly is the guy on the left playing in the first tune? 'Bones'?

[@HugoEckener127]

+Tony Brown Yes, that's Dom Flemons playing two pairs of bones! "The bones" as an instrument are traditionally made out of animal rib bones (cow, sheep, etc). They can also be made of wood or plastic. They are held protruding between the fingers on a hand, and with the right wrist-flicking movements, they make the clickety-clackety sounds you hear in the video. Metal table spoons are sometimes played as percussion instruments in a similar way; this is "playing the spoons." Bones are a common element of American folk music; Irish and other European immigrants probably brought the technique over. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese all "played the bones" too.

[@tonybrown6716]

+HugoEckener127 Many thanks. I am only, belatedly, getting into the Carolina Chocolate Drops: some wonderful recordings.

[@petesplac]

Question for R,,,you know the difference between a banjo and a Harye???? you caint tune a Harley.

[@TimSchmidt_art]

huh?

[@plainolded5030]

The joke goes like this; What is the difference between a banjo and a Harley? You can tune a Harley. Poor banjo players. They are very often the butt of the jokes in old time and bluegrass music. :-)

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

I still can't figure out what the guy on the left plays. Why not give the guy a jaw harp or a tambourine or something? Great music though. I can't get enough. I'd love to be in a band like this. Oh that's what he does? I don't know how I feel about that.

[@solveiglandvikbrg9103]

Perhaps BEATBOX ?????

[@lornelayman9132]

At the time percussion/jugs