Comments on: Carolina Chocolate Drops “Cornbread and Butterbeans”

By: DNLee

DNLee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:15:52 +0000

After seeing this post, I noticed they were in St. Louis weeks ago. Hate I missed them.

By: Rue

Rue — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:08:17 +0000

Indeed it is! How wonderful it is to reconnect with this aspect of our heritage.

By: Camping in Color(Barry & Cindy)

Camping in Color(Barry & Cindy) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:35:37 +0000

Thanks for the story, black music and country music have similar roots. Music and dance is part of our heritage.

By: Rue

Rue — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:25:08 +0000

I had no idea this band was going to be in my neck of the woods! I just might check them out! My parents were also Southern, “down home” folks, who adopted me later in life, so I had the benefit of an outdoor-connected lifestyle — which I have to admit, I did not always appreciate. But in the years since my parents have passed away, I came to understand the complexity of their lives, and every bit that reminds me of them touches my heart deeply — and this song did just that.

By: Phoenix Smith

Phoenix Smith — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:13:57 +0000

Thanks Rue,
You know they are going to be here in San Francisco for the Jazz Fest. And as we are in the seasons of the Ancestors from the Day of the Dead to a ritual my community holds every year http://www.ileorunmilaoshun.org how appropriate for us to celebrate the music of our ancestors. I know I grew up in the South and spent most of my time with my grandfather who would always have a pan of cornbread made in a skillet and beans on the stove. I would sit with him on the porch while he strummed his ukele that he made out of a cigar box and sang storys of growing up on a farm in Gonzales Texas. All praises to our ancestors and the healing relationship some of them had with the land beyond slavery.

By: Rue

Rue — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:37:46 +0000

Obafemi, you are completely on point! The outdoors was the domain of our grandparents, who are not ancestrally distant from where and who we are today.

If you have a “Cornbread and Butterbeans” party – Im’a be there fo’ sho’!!!

By: Obafemi

Obafemi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:06:51 +0000

Rue,

Big smiles over here… country watermelon smiles, as a matter of fact. I had not thought of the music in terms of the way we used to live closer to the land, but how true it is!
Once upon a time, not more than 2 generations ago, our families lived exclusively off the fat of the land; soap, clothes, vegetable gardens, chickens, MUSIC was largely home grown.
Cornbrean, butterbeans, live music under a full moon (like the one we just had!) and good company are the makings of a good time. Maybe we should conjure a monthly Corbread & Butterbeans Moonlit party in the country!