Welcome to the Weekend Baby BAY-BEH!! Hick-Hop?!? Yes.......Hick-Hop Hip Hop Meets The Hollow Some call the unusual blend of rural and urban music hillbilly hip-hop. Others call it hick-hop. The collaboration of banjos, fiddles and drums set to a beat that would leave a rapper out of breath was created to reach inmates from big cities who are in rural Appalachian … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Americans and Appalachian History
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Sunday Open Thread: Carolina Chocolate Drops
Good Morning POU! The Carolina Chocolate Drops is an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina. Their 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, and was number 9 in FRoots magazine's top 10 albums of 2010. … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Carolina Chocolate Drops
Friday Open Thread: African-American Violinists
HappyFriday Obots! I always thought there was a difference in the instrument known as the violin and the instrument known as the fiddle. Guess what? There isn't. Its the same instrument, the difference is simply in what you're playing. Fiddlers play folk, country and blues. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Violinists