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New Releases WEA.CoM iSSUE 13 JULy 13, 2010 LABELS / PARTNERS Atlantic Records Asylum Bad Boy Records Bigger Picture Curb Records Elektra Fueled By Ramen Nonesuch Rhino Records Roadrunner Records Time Life Top Sail Warner Bros. Records Warner Music Latina Word audio + video 7/13/10 Audio & Video Releases *Click on the Artist Names to be taken directly to the Sell Sheet. Click on the Artist Name in the Order Due Date Sell Sheet to be taken back to the Recap Page Street Date CAROLINA CHOCOLATE Genuine Negro Jig (Vinyl NON A-516995 DROPS w/Bonus CD) $19.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 The Original Broadway Cast Recording 'American Idiot' REP A-523724 GREEN DAY Featuring Green Day (2LP) $24.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- Inception (Music From The REP 524667 INCEPTION Motion Picture) $13.99 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- Korn III - Remember Who You RRR 177572 KORN Are $18.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- Korn III - Remember Who You RRR 177573 KORN Are (Amended) $18.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CX- Korn III - Remember Who You RRR 177575 KORN Are (Special Edition)(CD/DVD) $21.98 7/13/10 6/16/10 CD- WB 523012 MAINE, THE Black & White $13.99 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- SIR 523723 READY SET, THE I’m Alive, I’m Dreaming $9.94 7/13/10 6/23/10 REFLECTION ETERNAL: TALIB WB A-512766 KWELI & HITEK Revolutions Per Minute (2LP) $24.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CX- SANZ, Paraiso Express Edicion LAT 524896 ALEJANDRO Especial TVE (CD/DVD) $19.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- SWH 523895 WALL, PAUL Heart Of A Champion $18.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- Heart Of A Champion SWH 523896 WALL, PAUL (Amended) $18.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 CD- ATL 525014 ZERO 7 Record $18.98 7/13/10 6/23/10 Last Update: 05/18/10 ARTIST: Carolina Chocolate Drops TITLE: Genuine Negro Jig (Vinyl) Label: NON/Nonesuch Config & Selection #: A 516995 Street Date: 07/13/10 Order Due Date: 06/23/10 UPC: 075597980059 WEBSITES: Full Length Box Count: 30 Vinyl Unit Per Set: 2 Artist Site SRP: $19.98 Myspace Alphabetize Under: C Label Site File Under: Pop For the latest up to date info on this release visit WEA.com. OTHER EDITIONS: CD:075597983982 Genuine Negro Jig($15.98) ALBUM FACTS Genre: World Music Producers: Joe Henry Radio Formats: Non-comm A3/Americana/College Packaging Specs: One 140g regular weight black vinyl disc at Pallas in single pocket Stoughton jacket with CD in babypak Description: "It will do your heart good, do your spirits good, do your life good to come out and check them out and see this joyous music." --Taj Mahal on NPR's Morning Edition, talking about the Carolina Chocolate Drops The Carolina Chocolate Drops are as much about revelation as revival. On its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, the trio brings exuberance, humor, virtuosity and an infectious acoustic groove to its exploration of a near-forgotten brand of banjo-driven string-band music originating more than a century ago in the foothills of North Carolina, the Piedmont region where band members Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson were raised. In this rural area, musicians, both black and white, once shared and swapped tunes. Over the decades, the importance of the African-American role in string-band music was diminished, its sound and significance co-opted by minstrel shows and segregated by record labels. CCD -- under the tutelage of nonagenarian fiddler player Joe Thompson, one of the last surviving Piedmont musicians - have reclaimed the old-time songs, making them vital and fresh for right now, reasserting in the process the African roots of the banjo. The Carolina Chocolate Drops have won over crowds at the Newport Folk Festival, on such National Public Radio shows as Mountain Stage and A Prairie Home Companion, and on tours through Europe. Denzel Washington personally selected the trio to appear in his critically acclaimed 2007 directorial effort, The Great Debaters. In a review of a CCD Kennedy Center performance, The Washington Post declared, "Their set was anything but academic...these instrument-swapping residents of Durham, N.C., kept the audience active with speedy strumming, jug-blowing and percussion via carved hand-held bones and foot-banging syncopation." The Boston Globe concurred: "The acoustic trio - banjo, fiddle, guitar - managed the minor miracle of evoking a sepia- drenched era of mountain music... Giddens, Robinson and Dom Flemons, all multi- instrumentalists and vocalists, conveyed their deep knowledge with a sense of reverence and studied antiquity- including their simple, era-appropriate costumes - and a contagious, abundant joy." After two self-recorded independent releases, CCD chose to work with producer Joe Henry on Genuine Negro Jig. As with his production on Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi, Henry emphasizes simplicity, clarity, interaction; with its striking lack of studio frills, the emphasis is on the spirit of these performances, which are often as intense as they are exhilarating. Uptempo numbers like live-show favorite "Cornbread and Butterbeans" and "Sandy Boys" are immediate standouts, though slow-burning, moody tracks like "Kissin' and Cussin'" and "Snowden's Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)" prove to be downright haunting. The versatile Giddens performs the Celtic-style balladry of "Reynadine" acapella; she's equally convincing taking lead on a brilliant recasting of the 2001 Blu Cantrell R&B-dance hit, "Hit ‘Em Up Style " Genuine Negro Jig starts out with the specific but winds up with the universal; this is music that has literally traveled continents and centuries to achieve a brand new relevance, a shared history still in the making. ARTIST & INFO Hometown: North Carolina and Arizona Nonesuch Records has signed North Carolina-based trio the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a young string band in the centuries-old Piedmont banjo and fiddle musical tradition. The group's members-Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson-all trade duties as singers and swap instruments, too. Old-time Southern string music is often associated with Caucasian musicians from Appalachia, not African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont. But as Giddens pointed out in a recent NPR interview, "It seems that two things get left out of the history books. One, that there was string band music in the Piedmont, period. And that ... black folk was such a huge part of string tradition." Carolina Chocolate Drops seek to not only correct this misunderstanding, but to keep the old-time string music tradition alive. The group was formed after Flemons, Giddens, and Robinson met at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, NC. They have learned that tradition under the tutelage of Joe Thompson-who at age 90 is believed to be the last living performer from the Piedmont string band heyday. Their repertoire is centered around the traditional music of the early twentieth century but also includes original material as well as a show-stopping cover of Blu Cantrell's 2001 single "Hit ‘Em Up Style." The members of Carolina Chocolate Drops come from diverse musical backgrounds. Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Dom Flemons has immersed himself in music of the past, with a prodigious record collection and an immense knowledge of the different playing styles of the blues, country, and string band traditions. His influences include Ma Rainey, the Beatles, and the Band. As a part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Flemons uses his harmonicas for additional melody, and his jug and guitar root the band's rhythm. Rhiannon Giddens, a Piedmont native, grew up with the sounds of bluegrass from one side of her family and classic blues and jazz records on the other. After graduating the Oberlin Conservatory, she fell into contra dancing and became inspired by the Roundpeak-style old time bands she heard at the dances. She worked extra jobs to buy her first banjo and fiddle, and hasn't looked back since. Giddens' style is heavily influenced by the playing of Joe and Odell Thompson. She also calls contra and social dances, and is working on playing and calling simultaneously. Justin Robinson is the group's main fiddler and also plays banjo. He grew up in a house full of musicians-his mother is a classically trained opera singer and cellist, his sister a classical pianist, and his grandfather a harmonica player. Robinson played classical violin from the age of nine. Besides Piedmont string band music, he also is interested in Revolutionary War music, and fife and drum tradition of African Americans in the Deep South. MARKETING POINTS Press & Publicity: NPR- All Things Considered - click here NPR- Fresh Air - click here Associated Press review - click here Washington Examiner - click here PopMatters - click here Metromix - click here Fuel TV Committed to including CCD in a new releases broadcast segment; waiting to receive video footage. Boston Herald - positive review - click here Huffington Post - click here Time out Chicago - click here Chicago Sun Times - click here Associated Press - click here Charlotte Observer Committed to feature coverage in advance of York show. Portland Press Herald Committed to feature in advance of Freeport, ME show. Charleston Post & Courier Committed to feature in advance of Charleston show. Flagpole (Athens, GA) Committed to feature coverage in advance of Athens show. Valley News (Hanover, NH) Committed to feature in advance of Dartmouth shows. Washington Post Committed to record review in advance of DC show. Creative Loafing (Charlotte) Committed to show preview in advance of York show. AOL Spinner Album announcement posted 10/15; following up for streaming listening party to post week of release.