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After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

(Watch video: YouTube, Dotsub, or download MP4.) A quick little goodie from Boing Boing Video. Last night, I sat in on a live recording session at Santa Monica's Village Studios with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, described as "African-American string band revivalists." They were amazing: I have never been so emotionally moved by someone playing a musical jug (and banjos, fiddles, cow bones, and kazoos). Their performance was witnessed by a handful of music biz folks and oldtime music enthusiasts, and made me feel deeply homesick for Appalachia (I'm also craving cornbread and butterbeans today - there's a song for that). The Chocolate Drops have a new record coming out in 2010, and Boing Boing will be all over it like gravy on grits. If you dig R. Crumb, Smithsonian Folkways recordings of pre-blues and pre-bluegrass banjo music, and love folks who bring new life to authentic American music, you will flip out. So, the video above: after the Drops' performance and recording session ended, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, seated in center in the video), Blind Boy Paxton (seated at left in the video), and Frank Fairfield (seated far right) sat down together and jammed pure, sweet magic for a spell. I wasn't prepared with a proper camera or crew, but I grabbed my iPhonetraption out of my pocket and got to shootin'. I hope you enjoy it as much as everyone in the room did. Pure magic, these guys. (Special thanks to Joe Henry; Jeff Greenberg of Village Studios; Tom Osborn, Warner Bros. Records; David Bither, Nonesuch Records, and to Boing Boing Video's tireless editor, Eric Mittleman.)

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Paula Deen Gives Troops a Down-Home Salute Celebrity Cook Performs Live Show and Shares Recipes Just in Time for the Holidays For many of us, the holidays are all about family and good food, like moms homemade pumpkin pie and cranberry salad. Just in time for Thanksgiving, celebrity cook Paula Deen brought some of her down-home personality and traditional Southern cooking to the troops at Ft. Bragg. In a thank-you salute, Deen along with The All-American Chorus, took to the stage and entertained over 600 troops. Paulas husband, Michael, joined her on stage to help introduce a few distinguished guests and announce the Spouse of the Year award. The pair also shared family stories with the crowd. In addition to performing a live show, Deen visited with injured troops and new mothers at the medical center. There she signed cookbooks and took photos with the patients while sharing favorite recipes, stories and holiday ideas. In the 1990s, Paula opened her Savannah restaurant, The Lady and Sons, which remains a popular and successful Savannah restaurant today. Since then shes authored four cookbooks, has a lifestyle magazine called Cooking with Paula Deen and her own TV shows, Paulas Home Cooking and Paulas Party on the Food Network. Two of her most recent cookbooks include Paula Deen Celebrates and her memoir, Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'. Forbes recently named Deen on its 2007 Celebrity 100 List of The Most Powerful People in Show Business. Author: SBARTSTV Keywords: Celebrity Cook Paula Deen Gives Troops Down-Home Salute Consumer Added: November 24, 2008

Paula Deen Gives Troops a Down-Home Salute Celebrity Cook Performs Live Show and Shares Recipes Just in Time for the Holidays For many of us, the holidays are all about family and good food, like moms homemade pumpkin pie and cranberry salad. Just in time for Thanksgiving, celebrity cook Paula Deen brought some of her down-home personality and traditional Southern cooking to the troops at Ft. Bragg. In a thank-you salute, Deen along with The All-American Chorus, took to the stage and entertained over 600 troops. Paulas husband, Michael, joined her on stage to help introduce a few distinguished guests and announce the Spouse of the Year award. The pair also shared family stories with the crowd. In addition to performing a live show, Deen visited with injured troops and new mothers at the medical center. There she signed cookbooks and took photos with the patients while sharing favorite recipes, stories and holiday ideas. In the 1990s, Paula opened her Savannah restaurant, The Lady and Sons, which remains a popular and successful Savannah restaurant today. Since then shes authored four cookbooks, has a lifestyle magazine called Cooking with Paula Deen and her own TV shows, Paulas Home Cooking and Paulas Party on the Food Network. Two of her most recent cookbooks include Paula Deen Celebrates and her memoir, Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'. Forbes recently named Deen on its 2007 Celebrity 100 List of The Most Powerful People in Show Business. Author: SBARTSTV Keywords: Paula Deen Gives Troops Down-Home Salute Celebrity Cook Performs Live Show and Shares Recipes Just in Time for the Hol Added: November 24, 2008

Paula Deen Gives Troops a Down-Home Salute Celebrity Cook Performs Live Show and Shares Recipes Just in Time for the Holidays For many of us, the holidays are all about family and good food, like moms homemade pumpkin pie and cranberry salad. Just in time for Thanksgiving, celebrity cook Paula Deen brought some of her down-home personality and traditional Southern cooking to the troops at Ft. Bragg. Author: SBARTSTV Keywords: Paula Deen Gives Troops Down-Home Salute Celebrity Cook Performs Live Show and Shares Recipes Just in Time for the Hol Added: November 24, 2008