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Genuine Negro Jig

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Genuine Negro Jig

Second foot stomping release from the African American old time string band based in North Carolina

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Nonesuch
UK Release date
25/01/2010
  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A vital and integral page out of Appalachian history that has been long overlooked, but seems poised to claim its well-deserved place in the collective bluegrass consciousness
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    This kind of musical scavenging can be quite flat, but producer Joe Henry encourages a foot-stomping intensity that steers a rewarding path between novelty and academic research
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  3. 8.0 |   The Times

    Impressive, mixing traditional old-time string-band tunes with covers borrowed from Tom Waits and (superbly) Blu Cantrell
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  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    When they first emerged, they were inevitably seen as something of a novelty ... but the strength of their playing and singing showed that they meant business
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  5. 8.0 |   Spin

    ...the hints of violence in the sleepy original "Kissin' and Cussin'?" will give any sensible person the willies
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s this immersion in their cultural history and their willingness to engage it with their cultural present that sets the Carolina Chocolate Drops apart from the indie-folk dilettantes
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  8. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's a fine selection of traditional tunes here which further cement [their] mission to prove that "old-time music" can still be a vital force
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  9. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Bold, sinewy and arresting
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  10. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Playing banjos and fiddles and singing about coon dogs and cornbread, the Drops exuberantly remind listeners that African-American music was rustic before it got typed as "urban"
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