Ironing Board Sam and Drink Small perform together for the first time!

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Listen: 

Drink Small – Drink Blues 

“I wanna say somethin’ to y’all. You ain’t heard the piedmont blues played right ’til you hear Drink Small.” If you’re on an ear diet, you can’t get more raw and organic than the rough guitar picking of the blues doctor Drink Small.
The tune dances up and down the strings and his voice adds a classic
counterpoint, making him feel like he’s right next to you. (This feeling
is compounded if you’re listening to it on headphones.) A close listen
and you can hear muted “yeah!”s in the background, the signal of someone
— not Drink — getting way into what’s going on.

It’s easy when the playing is so free and the singing so genuine to be transported to a drink house or a front porch,
where the tones of the guitar aren’t stripped down to their bare
essentials by overwrought digital production and you can’t tell the
difference between a mistake and an embellishment. There’s
something about it that makes you feel right at home, even if you’re
like me and you’re discovering this world one song at a time.

Drink Small will be sharing the stage with Ironing Board Sam at the Sweet Palmetto Blues Festival in Columbia, SC this weekend.

– Whitney

Sweet Palmetto Blues – Ironing Board Sam and Drink Small perform together for the first time!

 

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Boo Hanks receives standing ovation at CCD’s show!

We headed to Raleigh last week to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops in concert. The show was amazing as always, and there was a surprise (to Whitney and I) guest! Boo Hanks
took the stage mid-way through the first set to play a song with Dom.
Raleigh got to experience a little of what audiences in NYC, Philly, DC
and Galax did on the Boo & Dom tour this summer.

We were thrilled to see Boo there, and at the end of his song the crowd jumped to their feet, obviously as thrilled as we were. We saw Boo after the show, and he said he loved the crowd – and he wished he’d brought more CDs to sign for them!

 – Corinne