Leaving Eden (Carolina Chocolate Drops album)

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Label Nonesuch Release date 27 February 2012 Genre Bluegrass		Artist Carolina Chocolate Drops Producer Buddy Miller

Released February 28, 2012 (2012-02-28) Nominations Grammy Award for Best Folk Album Similar Carolina Chocolate Drops albums, Bluegrass albums

Carolina chocolate drops leaving eden

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

A music video for "Country Girl" was released in May 2012.

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

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

1Riro's House2:05
2Kerr's Negro Jig1:10
3Ruby - Are You Mad at Your Man?3:48

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