Alternate Take: Country Roots Reborn

The Carolina Chocolate Drops - banjo player Dom Flemons and fiddlers Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson (they all sing and juggle guitar, Autoharp and percussion) - reignite a vintage outsider music: the early-20th-century jump and lamentation of black country string bands from North Carolina's Piedmont region. The Drops' marvelous new record has a proud and true title, Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch), and
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