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The Carolina Chocolate Drops were an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina.Their 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, [1] and was number 9 in fRoots magazine's top 10 albums of 2010.
Although African American old-time string bands recorded history is that of the early 20th century, the beginnings of the music started much earlier. Many people once believed that the role African Americans played in the upcoming of old-time string band music was either nonexistent or to interest the Middle Ages or medieval times.
Genuine Negro Jig is the third studio album of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band. Its label debut was released on February 16, 2010, while its vinyl version, which included the album on 140-gram vinyl and CD, was released on July 13. [5] This is the first album the band has recorded for Nonesuch Records. [6]
During the 1980s, Henrique Prince began putting together a band due to "an idea of specializing in dance music, because I really liked the idea of the violin as a dance instrument." [ 4 ] He also wanted to make "music African Americans used to perform and dance to before they found the blues and jazz and the other stuff became associated with ...
The Tennessee Chocolate Drops were an African-American string band trio, that started recording in 1930 during the Knoxville sessions. The trio consisted of brothers from Dayton, Tennessee, Howard Armstrong (fiddle) and Roland Armstrong (guitar), as well as Carl Martin (bass) of Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Although he lamented at the lack of interest in old-time music, in 2005 he began mentoring the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a modern-day African American string band. Carolina Chocolate Drops founding members Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson at Joe and Odell Thompson's Memorial in Mebane during the filming of Black Fiddlers
The Versatile Four, or sometimes The Versatile Three, was an American string band active in the 1910s and 1920s. The band played music usually characterised as ragtime, or early jazz, and was one of the first small groups of African-American musicians to perform in Britain and Europe. They were an offshoot of an earlier ensemble, the Versatile ...
Nuttin' But Stringz performed after a classical string quartet. General Motors executives used the two performances as an analogy, to demonstrate that what used to be good enough (the quartet) needs to be reinvigorated (N.B.S). A video for "Thunder" is also featured on the website for Jack's Big Music Show on Noggin (now called Nick