Leaving Eden (Carolina Chocolate Drops album)

Leaving Eden
Studio album by Carolina Chocolate Drops
Released	February 28, 2012 (2012-02-28)
Genre	Folk, Blues, Country, Bluegrass
Label	Nonesuch
Producer	Buddy Miller
Carolina Chocolate Drops chronology
Genuine Negro Jig (2010) Leaving Eden (2012)

Leaving Eden is the seventh studio album by the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Background

A music video for "Country Girl" was released in May 2012.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Riro's House" (Traditional; arr. Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens) - 2:02
2. "Kerr's Negro Jig" (Traditional; arr. Giddens) - 1:09
3. "Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?" (Cousin Emmy) - 3:46
4. "Boodle-De-Bum-Bum" (Ben Curry/Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 4:03
5. "Country Girl" (Giddens, Lalenja Harrington, Adam Matta) - 3:22
6. "Run Mountain" (J. E. Mainer) - 2:01
7. "Leaving Eden" (Laurelyn Dossett) - 4:36
8. "Read 'Em John" (Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 1:54
9. "Mahalla" (Hannes Coetzee) - 1:54
10. "West End Blues" (Etta Baker, Giddens) - 3:02
11. "Po’ Black Sheep" (Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 3:21
12. "I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man" (George Roarke) - 2:34
13. "No Man’s Mama" (Lew Pollack, Jack Yellen) - 4:00
14. "Briggs’ Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe" (Traditional; arr. Giddens) - 2:54
15. "Pretty Bird" (Hazel Dickens) - 4:04

Bonus track

1. "You Be Illin'" (Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Raymond White) - 3:17

Personnel

• Dom Flemons - snare drum, bass drum, bones, 4-string banjo, jug, quills, guitar
• Rhiannon Giddens - fiddle, 5-strings gourd banjo, 5 string banjo, 5-string cello banjo
• Hubby Jenkins - 5-string banjo, mandolin, guitar, bones
• Adam Matta - beatbox, tambourine
• Leyla McCalla - cello

References

External links

• Leaving Eden on Nonesuch