Carolina Chocolate Drops - Jack of Diamonds

Also known as the Drunkard's Hiccups. The Carolina Chocolate Drops on Sept. 21, 2007 at Watermelon Park Fest in Berryville, VA.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• oldtime
• bluegrass
• carolina
• chocolate
• drops
• watermelon
• park
• fest

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

Rhiannon's amazing.

[kengle1]

Dang, that woman's got a set of lungs!

[sanpalag10]

@mastercueartist Also i never made claims that slaves learned music exclusively from their "owners". As i no longer continue to discourse with you i will not survey african music and compare it to bluegrass music, but undoubtely there are similarities, but even if they're aren't that would not prove that people of african dissent did or did not influence bluegrass.

[sanpalag10]

@mastercueartist ok first off you're a fucking idiot and im sick of having this discussion with you. So fuck off. you ignorant piece of shit. Second off this video is old time music. There's undoubtedly more evidence that suggests Black americans had at least some influence on the music that would later be called bluegrass than evidence contriarwise. Some evidence: Clarence Ashley and Tommy Jarrel both claim to have learned music from Black men.

[mastercueartist]

@sanpalag10 Well I would say that I provided plenty of evidence if you would have taken the time to check into what I was saying. I am curious though, if you listen to songs from any part of Africa then listen to Bluegrass, I would love to know how you think they are alike in ANY way? If anything, the slaves got their form of music from their slave owners who did play old time and bluegrass type music. Like you said, they learned from their owners in the slave trade days, you said it yourself.

[sanpalag10]

@mastercueartist actually dating/marrying a person of color doesn't preclude one from being a racist. Flat out denying any African influence in Bluegrass music w/o any evidence is kinda silly, but would be evidence for being racist.

[MrFerdell]

Sounds like old Kentucky...super cool!

[tyger0603]

is it wrong if im from Sri Lanka and every time i listen to this vid..im mesmerized...

[stevecajun]

Hey whoever said this was "BLUEGRASS"....you need to do a little more research. This is NOT BLUEGRASS. This Old-Time music. Bluegrass was started by Bill Monroe in the 1940's. Some people think that music with a fiddle and banjo is "Bluegrass".....drives me nuts sometimes.....

[2eyejoe2]

@organicmolecules who..in there right mind ... believes anything from wikipedia?

[mastercueartist]

@organicmolecules Im sorry I misunderstood what you said about the Jazz thing. Only problem with what your saying now is that the simple fact of this whole entire debate is that the Irish and Scottish were already playing this music BEFORE they came to America. Listen to a true Irish song, then listen to a bluegrass song...the only thing missing from the Irish song is a banjo, not all songs but probably at least half of them are that way, the original ones anyway, not so much these days.

[organicmolecules]

I never said it was influenced by jazz, I said it was influenced by African musical ideas. African slaves have been playing music around Irish indentured servants since at least Jamestown.