Title: Low Quality
Review: This in no way is the quality of Carolina Chocolate Drops earlier recordings. HUGE disappointment! Giddens usual clear and positive voice is very much lacking in this recording and tired-sounding when she does sing. Most of the vocal work, particularly with the male voices, sounds sloppy and off-key. The overpowering banjo strumming is nerve jangling. The first four songs sound like one continuous, monotonous strum. Then back to irritating strumming on Black Annie,and on to underlying strumming--unimaginative--on Georgie Buck, which is relieved by occasional and intermittent fiddle and vocal. Then on to more strumming, again in same key with same rhythm and same tonal range (lack thereof). Repetitive strumming continues on Band 13. The final band, a poor execution of Sourwood Mountain, has non-remarkable harmonica along with the infernal strumming. I regret having ordered this disk. The C. Chocolate Drops should withdraw this disk. I hope they return to their far superior earlier work.
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