Carolina Chocolate Drops Interview (rewind episode)

About four years ago we had a chance to interview the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Since then you probably have heard them on NPR's Fresh Air, or from one of their return visits to St. Louis in the last four years. I was able to see them at B.B.'s Jazz Blues and Soups in mid 2007 which was only a about a year after they first met each other at the First Annual Black Banjo Festival. They've since gone on to make a nice career for themselves and to win a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album this year. So I gotta say that this is a first in the history of this site, that we were one of the first to cover an act that has gone on to win a Grammy. So in honor of this we thought we would reprise the Carolina Chocolate Drops interview we did way back when in a slightly new format, and that is as a single episode instead of the episodic two parter we did originally and has always been available in the site archives since it was first published (I don't know what we were thinking with two part thing to be honest). It's about thirteen minutes long and it includes performances and interviews with CCD. Be sure to catch Rhiannon Giddens performance of Another Man Done Gone somewhere in the middle of this video ... it's just stunning.One program note: Rhiannon was present in the interview but she was off camera nursing a cold and a sore throat so that's why you only see Justin Robinson and Dom Flemmons in the interview. portion.