Carolina Chocolate Drops releasing 'Leaving Eden' in February

North Carolina's own Carolina Chocolate Drops are set to release the follow-up to their Grammy winning 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig next month.

The new album produced by Buddy Miller is titled Leaving Eden and will be out on February 28 on Nonesuch Records. It will feature 15 songs with the usual mix of traditional tunes, covers and originals. Check out the full track list below (the songwriters are in parenthesis).

The band will be on tour in 2012 which includes a show at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill on Friday, February 3 with Luminescent Orchestrii.Tickets are on sale HERE for $29 to $69.

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

Carolina Chocolate Drops tour dates
01.26.12 - Portsmouth, NH - Music Hall
01.27.12 - Burlington, VT - Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
01.28.12 - Northampton, NH - Calvin Theater
01.29.12 - Albany, NY - The Egg
01.31.12 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater
02.02.12 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre
02.03.12 - Chapel Hill, NC - Memorial Hall @ UNC
02.07.12 - Madisonville, TN - Butcher Auditorium
02.09.12 - Henderson, KY - Henderson Fine Arts Center
02.17.12 - West Long Branch, NJ - Monmouth University
02.18.12 - Washington, DC - Library of Congress
02.19.12 - Tallhassee, FL - Ruby Diamond Auditorium
02.20.12 - Tallhassee, FL - Ruby Diamond Auditorium
02.23.12 - Louisville, KY - Clifton Center
02.24.12 - Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theater
02.25.12 - Richmond, IN - Earlham College
02.26.12 - Nelsonville, OH - Stuart's Opera House
02.28.12 - York, PA - Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
03.02.12 - New York, NY - Schimmel Center for the Arts
03.03.12 - Boston, MA - Berklee Performance Center
03.04.12 - Falls River, MA - Narrows Center for the Arts
03.07.12 - Norfolk, CT - Infinity Hall
03.08.12 - Rockland, ME - Strand Theatre
03.09.12 - Brownfield, ME - Stone Mountain Arts Center
03.10.12 - Brownfield, ME - Stone Mountain Arts Center
04.03.12 - Palmer, AK - Vagabond Blues
04.04.12 - Anchorage, AK - Wendy Williamson Auditorium
04.06.12 - Los Angeles, CA - UCLA Live
04.11.12 - Albuquerque, NM - Simms Auditorium
04.15.12 - Phoenix, AZ - McDowell Mountain Music
04.28.12 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest
06.17.12 - Palisade, CO - Palisade Bluegrass & Roots