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I could listen to the Carolina Chocolate Drops all day. Here, they do "Corn Bread and Butterbeans": That's Justin Robinson singing and on the fiddle, Rhiannon Giddens joins in song and plays the banjo, and Dom Flemons works the jug and bones. They carry on a tradition of African American string band music that Mebane, North Carolina's Joe Thompson taught them.

The Wiyos is a well-regarded white, urban group, with roots in New York and New Orleans. When they do their own, quite different, version of "Corn Bread and Butterbeans," the harmonica, guitar, bass and washboard, with bell and horn, replace the fiddle, banjo, jug and bones.

Posted on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:54 AM | Comments (2) | Return

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