May 22, 2013
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Carolina Chocolate Drops
Rediscovering the banjo's black roots
by Whit Hill
posted 1/1/2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, young African American musicians from North Carolina, renew a fairly arcane tradition, the old-time black stringband music of the Carolina Piedmont that they learned from its handful of surviving octogenarian performers. They started out playing dances and clubs like the Ark, and in the booklet for their latest album, in
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