Leaving Eden (Carolina Chocolate Drops album)
# Leaving Eden (Carolina Chocolate Drops album)

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

## Background

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

## Track listing

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

### Bonus track

* "You Be Illin'" (Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, Raymond White) – 3:17

## Personnel

* Dom Flemons – snare drum, bass drum, bones, 4-string banjo, jug, quills, guitar
* Rhiannon Giddens – fiddle, 5-strings gourd banjo, 5 string banjo, 5-string cello banjo
* Hubby Jenkins – 5-string banjo, mandolin, guitar, bones
* Adam Matta – beatbox, tambourine
* Leyla McCalla – cello

## Charts

### Weekly

| Chart (2012) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| Belgian Heatseekers Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 10 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 115 |
| US Billboard 200 | 123 |
| US Folk Albums (Billboard) | 6 |
| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) | 2 |
| US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard) | 1 |

### Year-end

| Chart (2012) | Position |
| - | - |
| US Folk Albums (Billboard) | 38 |
| US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard) | 8 |
| Chart (2013) | Position |
| US Top Bluegrass Albums (Billboard) | 15 |
