In my household we are generally anticapitalist underground nerdly types, listening to radio stations with a broadcast radius of five feet and reading revolutionary publications with notably unshiny covers. Nevertheless, a copy of Rolling Stone found its way to my breakfast table recently and over my local organic fair trade oatmeal I read David Fricke's comments about The Carolina Chocolate Drops. "..three young black musicians revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black strong-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties -a defiantly ecstatic music." I love kazoos and jugs and washboards. What could be more DIY than making music out of laundry equipment? This stuff is the punk rock of 1925. The CCD do it well, with vivacity, urgency, and for those of you who notice such things, technical proficiency.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops will be at the Iron Horse tonight, Thursday November 8, at 7pm. I'm going to be there, getting my dance on, exuberantly remembering that people have been creating the noise they need out of whatever life gives them for as long as there has been sound. --Monika Lauren
Get tickets for tonights show HERE.
