Carolina Chocolate Drops "Cornbread and Butterbeans"

Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Cornbread and Butterbeans" at WDVX's Blue Plate Special. For more information on Carolina Chocolate Drops please visit www.carolinachocolatedrops.com. For more information on WDVX's Blue Plate Special please visit www.wdvx.com.For more Blue Plate Special videos please visit http://www.knoxville.com/blue-plate-special/. Video by Talid Magdy/knoxnews.com

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[Pillzbug]

All this damn banjo pricking and cornbread eating is why this country is going to hell in a hand basket! Damn kids! Get off my lawn!

[Vanillablooos]

This is REAL talent. None of this "country pop" stuff you hear on the radio these days!!!! WAY TO GO C. DROPS!!!!

[MrPrinceOFpa]

@JonathanDaddy i dont say african american or anyother variation on american. i dont see race as an issue in my mind. so if u have a parent who is white and a parent who is black why is it that u decide they are black? wouldnt they be as black as they are white? and i dont know this girl but my expert opinion on women is that she is not african anything.

[JonathanDaddy]

@MrPrinceOFpa The LAST thing I want to get into is a discussion about race. And I hate to disturb anyone with actual facts, but Rhinannon Giddens the woman playing banjo is, in fact, an African American woman.

Music is music, folks. It does happen to be the case that this string band music has DEEP African American roots. More important, it is just great American music.

[girlygears13]

I hate seeing stuff like this become a race issue. IT'S ABOUT MUSIC NOT WHO'S PLAYING IT!

[riverstanding]

This thread has gone in a direction that is befouling of such a wonderful display of musicianship and mountain culture. Shame on you people... Have some respect.

[chapina1492]

I'm not a "country" music fan but THIS I LOVE !!! Just saw them interviewed on CNN's Music Monday.

[MrPrinceOFpa]

@captbanjo1 ya i am a kid from nowhere who is obsessed with racial issues. just admit u r an idiot for talking bout black people polaying banjos when there are no black people playing banjos. seriously. and u r the one who pays attention to race. it shouldnt be an issue and is not an issue for most people age 35 and younger. then u have your type who. go do a google for "black people love us" and click on the first website titled that dot com. me and my black friends r laughing at u

[captbanjo1]

@MrPrinceOFpa

Knowing there's a good chance you're just some kid from nowhere who is obsessed with racial issues, I release you back to the bitterness you came from. Have a nice life and may God bless and keep you always.

[MrPrinceOFpa]

@captbanjo1 i know the story there teach. i just think your comment sounded like typical white person who goes out of their way to be this black folks loving slobbering mess of political correctness. i forget about race awhile ago when it comes to music and most anything else. but it is funny that there is not one black person playing a banjo in this entire video but thats what u r talking about

[Dorain1969]

@MrPrinceOFpa Ouch! Time for me to retire from the interwebz, for I have been shredded by the best.

[captbanjo1]

@MrPrinceOFpa Oh golly gee....relax, would you? I'm not claiming to be any historian or anything of the sort. Just a banjo picker making an observation. As for my observations and opinions, they are just that; mine. You have a right to disagree. No need to send out the attack dogs. By the way, slaves did not bring over the banjo as we know it, but a precursor of an instrument that was...well, never mind, don't want to get all 'historian' on you and stuff.