"Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" Carolina Chocolate Drops version

I think I am physically incapable of listening to something knowingly called "old-timey music"

i mourn the original double-time, triplety version of hit 'em up style. i remember seeing the video when it first came out, and it must have flopped and been replaced by the version with the more traditional beat. can't find the original anywhere (ie it's not on youtube).

this band is pretty damn talented though (watching some other videos where they're switching up instruments)

okay this is cool but I would never ever buy this

Just saw them last night -- third time I've seen them play -- and they are for real one of the best live bands in America right now. I like their recordings fine, but you can't really understand how great and raucous and funny they are unless you see them. I know they sound like some kind of NPR fantasy band, and in some ways they are, but they're the opposite of fusty, puritanical revivalists. It's not just that they do "Hit em Up Style," they infuse everything with everything -- jazz, blues, country, R&B, gospel, last night they brought down the house doing 19th-century Afro-Scottish Gaelic traditionals with a thumping beat. They can give a 5-minute sociomusical discourse on the significance of minstrelsy, and then follow it up with an original tune like this one: http://vimeo.com/m/43149444.

Anyway, if you get a chance to see them, you oughta.

IF THEY WOULD PLAY ON THE WEST FUCKING COAST I WOULD

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/arts/music/a-solo-spotlight-for-a-powerful-voice.html

Jon Pareles article on singer Rhiannon Giddens whose solo album produced by T-Bone Burnett is coming out in february

T-Bone enthusing about her in another article:

"It was clear the first time I heard her at rehearsal," he said, "that Rhiannon is next in a long line of singers that include Marian Anderson, Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Rosetta Tharpe. We need that person in our culture."

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/music-rhiannon-giddens-discovers-true-calling-with-help-from-friends/article_33a65522-fbeb-5626-8b54-a7a8820dc3e1.html

Former Carolina Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons did not have a big-name producer for his solo release

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336577946/dom-flemons-holds-onto-that-old-time-root

x-post--some folks dislike producer T-bone Burnett for being a born-again Christian, and others for just being the main go-to guy for Americana roots production work

Her solo North American tour announced:

Rhiannon Giddens On Tour

March 28 - Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival

March 29 - Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival

March 31 - Lexington, KY @ Lexington Opera House ^

April 1 - Charlotte, NC @ McGlohon Theatre ^

April 2 - Durham, NC @ Carolina Theater ^

April 3 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre ^

April 4 - Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry ~

April 7 - Rocky Mount, VA @ Harvester Performance Center ^

April 8 - Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater ^

April 9 - New York, NY @ Town Hall ^

April 10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts ^

April 12 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre ^

April 14 - Norfolk, CT @ Infinity Hall ^

April 16 - Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre ~

April 17 - Port Washington, NY @ Landmark on Main Street ^

April 18 - Somerville, MA @ Somerville Theatre ^

April 19 - Brownfield, ME @ Stone Mountain Arts Center

April 21 - Albany, NY @ The Egg ^

April 23 - Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre ^

April 24 - Grand Rapids, MI @ St. Cecilia Music Center ^

April 26 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom ^

April 27 - Madison, WI @ Capitol Theatre ^

April 28 - Minneapolis, MN @ Pantages Theatre ^

April 29 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall ^

May 1 - Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater ^

May 3 - Anchorage, AK @ Discovery Theatre

May 4- Palmer, AK @ Glen Massay Theatre

May 8- Santa Barbara, CA @ Campbell Hall, UCSB

May 9 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater ^

May 12 - Arcata, CA @ Van Duzer Theater, Humboldt State Univ.

May 14 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ

May 15 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ

May 16 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ

May 17 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ

May 19 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater ^

May 20 - Seattle, WA @ Meany Theater, University of Washington ^

May 23 - Augusta, GA @ Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que Music Festival

June 2 - Raleigh, NC @ Meymandi Concert Hall - NCS Benefit *

June 11-14 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival

June 18-21 - Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival

mixed review of her album from Greil Marcus

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/where-the-song-leaves-you

the new Rhiannon Giddens album is excellent, feels like the full manifestation of what she's been working toward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stydeO3m59g

how in the world did i miss the original video the first time around??

i imagine it's the best performing YouTube video the Knoxville News Sentinel has ever put out.

how in the world did i miss the original video the first time around??

i imagine it's the best performing YouTube video the Knoxville News Sentinel has ever put out.