Comments on: Carolina Chocolate Drops Bring Raucous Fiddle Tunes to the Birchmere

By: merlefan49

merlefan49 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:43:10 +0000

Glad to see the drops are getting some press!

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:21:08 +0000

I think we’ll make the three hour treck to Nowhere, Maine to see them in March. Seems like it’ll be well worth it.

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:18:19 +0000

They sound awesome to catch in concert, but I was a bit outraged to discover that venue was charging $7 a beer. That is almost ballpark prices.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:57:28 +0000

Kelly, I had gone to that festival to see Uncle Earl and The Greencards and had never heard of the CCD’s prior to that, but they were the best act I saw that day from a pure entertainment viewpoint. That had invited a black “slap dancing expert” friend up from San Diego who also played a mean mouth harp. Between their music and the slap dancer’s movements and hand generated percussion it was a bit mesmerizing at times. Talk about a truly unique live musical experience! Sheesh!

Rhiannon joined Uncle Earl for the G’earl’s set and was doing some clog style dancing on top of a big crate when the dust storm hit that pelted them all with dirt, sand, and gravel! That brought a quick end to that set. That’s one festival they are not likely to forget…(lol)

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:35:06 +0000

I saw them on the Opry and in rerun of the Opry when it was shown on GAC (Darn I wish it was again..so many are missing it there!) and they were great! Got the crowd in it for sure!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:31:34 +0000

Wow, I am jealous of Rick for once. I would love to catch a CCD show in such a setting. As a big OCMS fan, I am rather certain that most OCMS fans are already keenly aware of CCD and enjoy them quite a bit.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:26:29 +0000

Having seen the CCD perform live back in October 2007 at the Joshua Tree Music Festival I can attest to how entertaining their live shows can be. Most of the standing audience members (white hipster/groovers in their 20′s) at that show were dancing throughout their set, more so than any other band I saw perform that day, and the Blu Cantrell song brought a tremendous response.

I can’t see big fans of Top 40 AirHead Country getting into this sort of music but those Americana and bluegrass fans that like old timey and off the wall music should respond. I wonder if Old Crow Medicine Show fans would like the CCD’s? Hmm…