Leaving Eden (Carolina Chocolate Drops album)

Leaving Eden is the fourth studio album by the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Leaving Eden
Studio album by
Carolina Chocolate Drops
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2012 (2012-02-28)
RecordedMarch-July 2011 at Buddy Miller's Home
GenreFolk, blues, country, bluegrass
LabelNonesuch
Producer Buddy Miller
Carolina Chocolate Drops chronology
Genuine Negro Jig
(2010)
Leaving Eden
(2012)

Background

A music video for "Country Girl" was released in May 2012.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Riro's House" (Traditional; arr. Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens) - 2:02
  2. "Kerr's Negro Jig" (Traditional; arr. Giddens) - 1:09
  3. "Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?" (Cousin Emmy) - 3:46
  4. "Boodle-De-Bum-Bum" (Ben Curry/Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 4:03
  5. "Country Girl" (Giddens, Lalenja Harrington, Adam Matta) - 3:22
  6. "Run Mountain" (J. E. Mainer) - 2:01
  7. "Leaving Eden" (Laurelyn Dossett) - 4:36
  8. "Read 'Em John" (Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 1:54
  9. "Mahalla" (Hannes Coetzee) - 1:54
  10. "West End Blues" (Etta Baker, Giddens) - 3:02
  11. "Po’ Black Sheep" (Traditional; arr. Flemons) - 3:21
  12. "I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man" (George Roarke) - 2:34
  13. "No Man’s Mama" (Lew Pollack, Jack Yellen) - 4:00
  14. "Briggs’ Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe" (Traditional; arr. Giddens) - 2:54
  15. "Pretty Bird" (Hazel Dickens) - 4:04

Bonus track

  1. "You Be Illin'" (Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Raymond White) - 3:17

Personnel

Charts

Weekly

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Belgian Heatseekers Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[2] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[3] 115
US Billboard 200[4] 123
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[5] 6
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[6] 2
US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard)[7] 1

Year-end

Chart (2012) Position
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[8] 38
US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard)[9] 8
Chart (2013) Position
US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard)[10] 15
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