Carolina Chocolate Drops w/The Two Man Gentlemen Band: at Marathon Music Works (Nashville, TN) Sun. December 2, 2012

Carolina Chocolate Drops w/The Two Man Gentlemen Band

AC ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

Nashville Scene Critic's Pick …

If the brawny bombast of The Who is not your thing, you would do well to consider this show, featuring modern takes on traditions that captivated audiences with wit and instrumental prowess long before the amplifier stack was born. An African-American string band from the Piedmont focused on highly danceable story-songs bursting with dry humor and double entendres, the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops have traveled the globe on their own, as well as in support of Taj Mahal and Bob Dylan. The Two Man Gentlemen Band tell similar tales, working an irreverent vaudevillian duo act into a style recalling Les Paul and Slim Gaillard.

—STEPHEN TRAGESER