Carolina Chocolate Drops - Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind

[56bluegold]

They are cool !

[headstock48]

I've never seen a band use the old timey instruments that this band uses. They are very cool.

[westems23]

just all around good music , some will call it bluegrass and some call it old time. I call it good stuff. who cares what or were it came from. great music is great music . as to the red neck comment, just becuase were rednecks doesn't mean were racist. I no some black white and hispanics that will tell you there rednecks

[nc51heel]

I just can't still when listening to CCD. great stuff

[nelsonmouse]

When are these guys/girls comin to the UK. Cambridge folk festival?

[blackarawak83]

Well, we can say that his the daddy of the bluegrass as sung in the by black/white country folks in the late 20th century.

[harmonykoruption]

good tyme music!

[oldmtnfart]

ok, so it's not bluegrass, who gives a shit. it's good music any way you cut it. these kids have a gift. I saw them at Merle fest and cove Creek this year and it was worth the price. take care.

[chantalbernard]

@oldmtnfart I think this is called 'Old Time'......

[JosephNScott]

The style known as bluegrass was invented by Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs in the same era that bebop and the doo wop sound were coming together, the mid-1940s. This is pre-bluegrass in style.

[baanjoguy]

OH HELL YES.......DAMN GOOD PLAYIN

[goodmorningcapt1]

This is not bluegrass, this is Old Time Music. Old Time means before the countrypolitan movement of the fifties, when electric instruments, drums, and orchestration were introduced. This is for the most part what country music was in the 20s 30s and 40s, before commercial interests took over.

[tmt292929]

it has some bluegrass too it though

[goodmorningcapt1]

The driving elements present in bluegrass, the mandolin chop and 3 finger style banjo picking, are not present in The Drops' music. Neither are the upright string bass or harmony singing, other staples of bluegrass music. This music is an ancestor to bluegrass music. And it's great.

[thebetterhalf37]

its more like, bluegrass has some of this to it. bluegrass is a reinvention of old time music and fiddling.

[LucyStag]

I need to get their album! They're so wonderful.

[goldencountry]

latoski,

You said it best!

[brestriff]

hey u guys wer greta and you did an fantasic job at my schoool today and yea mr preiss did want u to come and yes u did and i love little margret that u have done in the the years i wanted you to play it today bue u couldnt darn but anyway u guys are gret

[dajania14]

you people performed at my school........noble middle school...i loved yall....mr.priess wanted you guyz to my school and you came..thanx and good job

[MiGhTy567]

Is this what you call, Rednecks?

[handesmith]

hmmm, rednecks....? no man, I'd say this is pretty much on the other side of redneck....

[MrCrybabyblues]

@handesmith blacks can be just as hillbilly as us hills are in the heart not the skin

[MitchellWilsonMusic]

@MiGhTy567 No, but your comment is what I call ignorant

[mikeBend]

Despair, be gone!

[headnclowds]

FAAAAANTAAAAASTIC!!!!

[WheelofTime]

I heard them on NPR (national public radio) on the show The Folk Sampler. They actually played this very song. I have been hooked ever since. These guys are so unique and over flowing with talent!

[Anaximmander]

mee too they are amazing

[Hansel34]

I mean I wouldn't say unique, their music is basically Bluegrass, but it has an Black Southern flair to it. This kind of stuff used to be popular back during the Great Depression.

[thebetterhalf37]

this is not "bluegrass". this predates it

[plowhand247]

fraid not

[latoski]

it doesn't get much better than these guys !

[tailsfins]

I love these folks! I saw them at Fiddle Tunes fest. in Port Townsend, and they where just fantastic. Great musicians and very nice people to.

Nice to see this tune posted, it's one of my favorites by them.

[DubhHer0]

when are you in the Boston area?

you are great!