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Carolina Chocolate Drops — Snowden's Jig
Album: Genuine Negro Jig
Avg rating:
6.5

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Total ratings: 3452









Released: 2010
Length: 3:50
Plays (last 30 days): 0
(Instrumental)
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Yeah, I get it; trance stuff.  Trouble is, finding the right groove is difficult and these folks need to try harder.
 hamiltonchris180 wrote:

Ugh. How depressing. 



No beauty without decay.
Mesmerising piece - beautiful and slightly disturbing.
 Stefen wrote:

I was surprised at the title of the album.  

Not the album title, but the song title.
Interesting, Snowden became famous in 2013, but the song was released 2010.

Ugh. How depressing. 
Innately talented musicians know how to flirt with dissonance… 😓
Then resolve ☺️
This is pretty boring and repetitive.  And whoever is playing the bag of walnut shells should stop!
 nini wrote:


Indeed!!  I saw them at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival this past October and they were awesome!  And down to earth and funny too!


This is also where I saw Carolina Chocolate Drops - they were opening for Joan Baez that year.  I bought a homemade brownie from someone in the crowd.  I was so innocent and didn't even suspect it might have a LOT of THC in it, nor did I understand how much or how little of edibles I was supposed to consume.  I was high allllll afternoon and into the evening. 
Really annoying.
430 comments, decent ratings, 3 plays a month, but this is the only Carolina Chocolate Drops track on RP.  Seems it would be good to put on one or two of their other songs in rotation.
So excellent.  
This is remarkable, made me stop what I was doing to check.
Am I the only one who hears Randy Rhodes' Crazy Train lick in this...?
If you think this is screechy wait until Cult With No Name comes back into rotation.
Screechy and makes me anxious! Lol. 
 Madness1954 wrote:

Anyone who enjoys this should also check out the Canadian-American band The Fretless.




Thank you, I'll check them out.
Anyone who enjoys this should also check out the Canadian-American band The Fretless.
Down to the earth, wholesome & good, like bread & butter. Yum.
 suzzan wrote:

Mesmerizing. Those of you who didn't enjoy should try dancing with your dog to this song. Perfection.



Our canine companion is a Bassett Hound. Poor thing has nearly contorted herself in half, but she getting into the groove of it. 
 thecuttywren wrote:

There's a heavy and almost pedantic feel to this that's exciting - the music is compelling, almost addictive, and something that can climb inside you and make you want to replay, replay, replay it ^_^



Exciting pendant. Can't say I've ever seen those two words used in the same sentence before.

 NCEyeballKid wrote:

Try a country store in the NC piedmont.

Serious roots from all over the place in this tune, dat fursure!
There's a heavy and almost pedantic feel to this that's exciting - the music is compelling, almost addictive, and something that can climb inside you and make you want to replay, replay, replay it ^_^
Very Laurie Anderson vibe to it. 
Very interesting!!  Thanx RP!
Rhiannon Giddens was just on an episode of the "Dolly Parton's America" podcast talking about the Afro-Caribbean origins of the banjo and other instruments. I had no idea and definitely need to learn more about that. 
*opening drum beat starts*
 
When the sun goes down
And the clouds all frown
Night has begun for the sunset
 
oh wait, it's not that song...
I like this music. I had to have a look-see. Love the album cover. Love the band name. Love the album name. Just all a comfortable giggle.
lovely lady with a lovely voice and still knocks you out without a single word (or that lovely voice at all). 
The guys are good as well.
I love their sound. I feel like I am in the Agora at Texas Renaissance Festival... which is a good place to be. 
 
Holy cow, look at that spread on the ratings graph.  It's definitely a "like" or "hate" track.
Hot damn!
WOW! That was most awesome... 8 > 10! I am smitten by Rhiannon Giddens talent!  Her skill set is amazing! The whole band is amazing...but Rhiannon... be still my beating heart
What was I thinking  9 -> 10 easy! Fiddle work is spectacular, soulful, minimal, and yet it swings.
I like this. It is a great hook. Give it a heavy rock production.....voila...8 & maybe a top 30 hit!
I was just watching Rob Landes play violin on his YouTube channel and thought I heard an echo when I realized that I had RP on in the background {#Roflol}
Kinda wonder what Ed over in Moscow might think of this track?  
there are people who have given this less than a 8 ?
WTF ?!
Makes me tap my feet, means it's good, or irish dance reflexes =)
 suzzan wrote:
Mesmerizing. Those of you who didn't enjoy should try dancing with your dog to this song. Perfection.
 
We have a basset hound and shee is way better at dancing to this than I.
Funny how an instrumental like this can make you feel, just from simple music.  There is a lot hidden here.  This is a cool song.
Pig wash😡
I've been introduced to a new style of music! Those who like it might want to check out Swedish folk music played on the keyed fiddle ("nyckelharpa"), especially for dance styles like the slängpolska.
I get a lot of Bolero-ish vibes from this one. Love them both.
This is awful...
Beautiful, haunting, primal, as well as technically fascinating.  I recently upgraded it to a solid 10.  Much like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, when this song comes on I am compelled to stop what I'm doing and just listen.  I only wish more of CCD's catalogue was in this style.  Thank you RP for leading me to this song!!!
 westslope wrote:
Compelling. 

On first glance, the woman on the cover looks native American…
 
From Wikipedia, incidentally: "Giddens is multiethnic in ancestry. Her father was European American and her mother African American and Native American."
 sfyi2001 wrote:
NO.
 
Right back atcha.
NO.
 westslope wrote:
Compelling. 

On first glance, the woman on the cover looks native American but that does not detract from the enjoyment of "genuine negro jug".  Leyla McCalla if not mistaken.  
 
It's Rhiannon Giddens.
I try to judge a piece a music on the principle that if I had to listen to an album of similar sounding music for around sixty minutes, would I be better/happier for doing that.
Sadly this piece of music fails that test.
Just my opinion.
Compelling. 

On first glance, the woman on the cover looks native American but that does not detract from the enjoyment of "genuine negro jug".  Leyla McCalla if not mistaken.  
 BBoyes wrote:
I'm liking this. It's been a long, hard, but very productive, day here in the derelict church of technology (my office really is in an old rundown church building where we design and prototype embedded control systems). Somehow that tune felt just right in the moment. Interesting how polarizing it is!
 
I'm having a laugh to myself with your work, workplace and its former use. Man, they were doing the same thing there before your company moved in, "embedded control systems", in a church, really that's funny


And I really dig the song too :)
Belly dancing!
Bumped this up from 3 to 7.

Don't know what I was thinking.
Rhiannon Giddens is very talented in many ways and a wonderful singer & musician but even so... I just cannot bring myself to like this particular piece. For me, it's mostly just chalk on the blackboard. Sorry for that. 
 bc11 wrote:
I'd rather talk politics than listen to that song again.
 

 crispynz1 wrote:
What an awful noise.
 
Yes, you certainly are making one.  Now, be a dear and shut up while this excellent piece of music is being played by a wonderful group of musicians.  Thank you.
What an awful noise.
Another reason I love RP. 
 Phlegmaticman wrote:
Catch this band live if you get the chance!
 
Did exactly that. We volunteer at the local theater, and choose shows to work based on availability rather than interest. My wife isn't  really open to most music, but she became a huge CCD fan after hearing them live. 

A psycho-acoustical analysis with the Zwicker's Annoyance Model using weightings of sound pressure vs frequency based on the equal loudness contours from the A-weighting on the 40 phon curve to the C-weighting at very high levels conclusively determine that the violin in this song is annoying beyond human tolerance.

GOD PLEASE STOP THIS SHIT
I love everything about RP except the lack of PSD when playing on a whole house system or streamer.  I don't play off the computer, so when fingernails-on-the-blackboard stuff like this comes on, I have to turn it off....rather listen to a first year violin student than suffer through this repetitive squeaky dirge... 
There is absolutely nothing 'jiggy' about this.
Totally diggin' this more every time I hear it.
 Boxie wrote:
This is what you play to scare away dogs and young children.
 

Just one more reason to enjoy it!
This is what you play to scare away dogs and young children.
 Hogtownmike wrote:

I also like it... for about a minute. then, PSD
 
Oh you old-timers with your PSD.  Get with the times, it's skip to next now.
 SeriousLee wrote:
I love instrumentals like this.

For about 2 minutes.
 
I also like it... for about a minute. then, PSD
 pigtail wrote:
Is the song named for Edward Snowden?  Somehow I don't think so but I am curious.
 
Nope, apparently it's a traditional song that is well over 100 years old.
I like it for what it is, not something to steadily listen to, but it fits nicely into the mix here. Great group as well.
Jeff Buckley's 'Dream Brother' anyone?
 brane wrote:
Repetition of few notes is very good torture recipe.
Thank god for PSD.
 
Ditto
Repetition of few notes is very good torture recipe.
Thank god for PSD.
I saw these guys at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco a few years back.  They played this song, and I was hooked.  I can see why people would find it a bit grating, but if you see them perform this live it's a totally different experience.
More Triangle songs please.
 Stefen wrote:
I was surprised at the title of the album.  
 
Why?
I love instrumentals like this.

For about 2 minutes.
Maybe this song is like the Yanny vs Laurel audio that is so divisive. I hate it and hear only "Yanny" so maybe those who love it hear "Laurel"?

https://youtu.be/7X_WvGAhMlQ
 suzzan wrote:
Mesmerizing. Those of you who didn't enjoy should try dancing with your dog to this song. Perfection.
 
Dances with Wolves
Is the song named for Edward Snowden?  Somehow I don't think so but I am curious.
Everyone in our house jumps for the PSD button when this comes on.  She's a great fiddler but tortures with this one...
I was surprised at the title of the album.  
Great riff
SO much love for this band! {#Notworthy}
Very...gypsy.  I like it!
 fredriley wrote:

At the risk of being really awkward, it might be both Celtic and Norwegian, or more accurately Norse. Much of Scottish fiddle music is Norse-influenced on account of those pesky invading Vikings a-pillaging everywhere all those centuries back. This is especially the case in the Northern Isles (Shetland, Orkney) which only became nominally Scottish in the 16th Century when they were sold to the Scottish Crown by hard-up Norse nobles, and whose peoples still consider themselves to be more Norse than Scots, especially in Shetland. The Northern Isles are famous for fiddle music, and Shetland has an annual fiddle festival.

So both sunward and evermovingtarget might be right :). Cool sound, whatever, and very RP.

 
I like to tell people that I meet from the British Isles that we could be related.      {#War}




P.S.  fred, Your knowledge of Norse history and contemporary Scandinavia continues to impress/intimidate.    
It almost sounds annoying but then I am compelled to listen.  This is an interesting piece of music.  
 SCULLY wrote:
The violin sounds alive {#Boohoo}

 
And being tortured {#Stop}
It is early morning in Australia and you have to torture my eardrums with this 😢 
 LizK wrote:
Is snowden that snowden?  Mean something?  Or a coincident?

 
It's named after a family of musicians.
Is snowden that snowden?  Mean something?  Or a coincident?
 Schmoogsley wrote:
They ought not say Negro. 

 why ?
shall we rename Niger and Nigeria, and eliminate the words "negro" and "negra" from the Spanish dictionary...?


 Proclivities wrote:

Exactly, the bends and slides are intentional.  It's being played by Rhiannon Giddens, one of the foremost fiddlers around today.  

 
she is a treasure...
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:

That's up to them to decide.

 
I agree, but, I don't think society does. 
Love this!  {#Boohoo}
 BBoyes wrote:

Really? I'm not hearing it out of tune or key at all. It's played in a certain style with bent notes and embellishment which I can understand might not appeal to all.

 
Exactly, the bends and slides are intentional.  It's being played by Rhiannon Giddens, one of the foremost fiddlers around today.  
 scott_bruce wrote:
Always reminds me of my son first learning to play the violin using the Suzuki Method. Oh, it was painful.

 
Are sure It wasn't the Kawasaki ?
Always reminds me of my son first learning to play the violin using the Suzuki Method. Oh, it was painful.
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:

That's up to them to decide.

 
^^ +1 ^^
 Schmoogsley wrote:
They ought not say Negro. 
 
That's up to them to decide.
The violin sounds alive {#Boohoo}
 SurfDoc wrote:
The violin sounds so out of key, it really ruins the vibe!

 
It's not out of tune at all. It's just fiddlin' style.
They ought not say Negro. 
Looked them up after I heard this song. Very cool groove.

They're the first all African-American group to play at the Grand Ole Opry and the rest of this album is Appalachian songs. This is the best one on the album from what I could tell. And I love it. 
Wow , I was in a bad mood when I rated this a 2. I actually dig this. It does have a more primitive simple sound which is helping my need for simple things today.  
It sounds kind of primitive / modern.  I like it.
Nails on a chalkboard.  Make it stop!!!
 
 SurfDoc wrote:
The violin sounds so out of key, it really ruins the vibe!

 
Really? I'm not hearing it out of tune or key at all. It's played in a certain style with bent notes and embellishment which I can understand might not appeal to all.
 ronniegirl wrote:
T Bone Burnett just produced an album for this lady and her voice - OH MY!   More Chocolate drops Bill!

 
Thanks for the alert. Will have to check that out. I like everything he produces. He produces the Nashville TV series soundtrack which I find excellent.
The violin sounds so out of key, it really ruins the vibe!
Dang but she can play that violin.
you know, this is what we do at the cottage with friends, just not as well :)
{#Crown}
Bonne rythmique, bon son, agréable à écouter.
This turned out to be a very interesting album.  I'm glad I bought it, and thanks to RP, who acquainted me with this band. 
T Bone Burnett just produced an album for this lady and her voice - OH MY!   More Chocolate drops Bill!
It's a jig folks, they generally stay in the same rhythmic patterns throughout the piece. This has an Appalachian feel to it. It is good!    {#Clap}
Not a fan of this.{#Grumpy}