SFJAZZ presents Carolina Chocolate Drops
2015-05-14
Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM, Thursday, May 14, 2015

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[7:37 PM lights down, announcements; concert opens with just RG, HJ]

1. [7:41 PM] ?
2. [7:45 PM] ? Sammy Run
3. [7:49 PM; +RC, MP] ?
4. [7:53 PM] Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind
5. [7:59 PM; +JD, JS] ?
6. [8:02 PM] ?
7. [8:06 PM] ?
8. [8:11 PM] Sweet Sue
9. [8:16 PM] ? (Instrumental x2) †
10. [8:22 PM] Ruby ¤
    [set ends 8:26 PM; all off after a minute or so]

[8:44 PM lights down, core four out]

1. [8:46 PM] ?
2. [8:52 PM; +JD, JS] ?
3. [8:56 PM; -JD, RG, JS] Out on the Western Plains
4. [9:01 PM; all back] ?
5. [9:07 PM] ?
6. [9:11 PM] ?
7. [9:16 PM] Snowden's Jig (AKA A Genuine Negro Jig)
8. [9:21 PM] ?
9. [9:26 PM] ?
10. [9:33 PM] I'll Wait for You in Tennessee
    [set ends 9:37 PM; makin' us wait…]
     
    Encore
11. [9:40 PM] ? (Sister Rosetta Tharpe medley)
    [show ends 9:45 PM]

Carolina Chocolate Drops

• Rowan Corbett: acoustic guitar, banjo, bones, snare drum, cajon, djembe, harmony vox;
• Rhiannon Giddens: † 5-string banjo, fiddle, kazoo, lead and harmony vox;
• Hubert “Hubby” Jenkins: acoustic guitar, ¤ resonator mandolin, 5-string banjo, bones, lead and harmony vox;
• Malcom Parson: cello, melodica, harmony vox;
  - with help from -
• Jamie Dick: drums;
• Emily Oleson: dancer;
• Jason Sypher: contrabass.

It was fun seeing the Carolina Chocolate Drops again – and I'm glad to see that their building their audience pretty well, as they deserve to be better acclaimed. Like many fans, I was hoping for at least one or two tunes off the New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River, but unless I was snoozing, that didn't happen. Oh well! Wrong band anyways! At least they blasted through Leadbelly's Out on the Western Plains. You gotta love that one!

On the other hand, I thought the pacing of the show suffered at times as Rhiannon or the others took a little too long to share a bit of back story. Might have been a useful dodge in order for them to catch a breath in between fast tunes, but I'd have preferred another tune or two, even if it was a dirge!

Since I was relaxing and listening tonight, my setlist is crap … I can hardly remember a fraction of what was performed, and with Rowan and Hubby trading back and forth between guitar and banjo every one or two tunes that aspect of the show also went un-noted – shoulda put myself on the job, but sometimes you just gotta be a little lazy in order to enjoy the music!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2015 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2015 event list! ☸ On to the next event!