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Carolina Chocolate Drops

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http://youtu.be/-3XsHMOEQGc

Underligt at jeg skulle opdage bluegrass/folk-kvartetten Carolina Chocolate Drops via violinist/sangerinde Rhiannon Giddens, hvis soloalbum udkommer i næste uge. Men her er de fra selveste Grand Ole Opry; hvis man synes om Gillian Welch og Alison Krauss, er der en pæn chance for at man også vil komme til at holde af dem her. Rhiannon Giddens’ varme og vemodige vokal og resten af bandets sammenspil går i hvert fald rent ind hos mig.

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  1. Minder mig indirekte om følgende samtale med James Ellroy:

    Allen Barra: You raised yourself and got into continual trouble with the law. Didn’t you ever feel sorry for yourself?

    James Ellroy: Sure, of course I did; but the abandonment of self-pity is the beginning of wisdom. To be a kid is practically to be self-pitying. I’m not a big fan of kids. I’m not a big fan of adolescent culture. I hate rock ‘n’ roll. I hate pop culture.

    AB: Does that extend to, say, country music?

    JE: I hate country music – rednecks whining.

    AB: Blues?

    JE: Black men whining. I love classical music. Beethoven didn’t whine.

    AB: I think a lot of people assume that you like jazz because you wrote a book called White Jazz.

    JE: If you ever want to torture me, put me on a desert island with nothing to listen to but Charlie Parker and John Coltrane records. I think that stuff is absolutely hideous.

  2. Nu er de jo faktisk fra North Carolina og er afro-amerikanere i en genre, der efterhånden har glemt denne befolkningsgruppes bidrag til den. Navner er en slet skjult kommentar til dét.

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