December 16, 2015

The Legend of Charlie Poole

County Records COUNTY-516

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time
[Tracklist]
A1 Look Before You Leap
A2 Hungry Hash House
A3 Old And Only In The Way
A4 Write A Letter To My Mother
A5 Goodbye Booze
A6 My Wife Went Away And Left Me
B1 Goodbye Liza Jane
B2 Leaving Dear Old Ireland
B3 Budded Roses
B4 The Highwayman
B5 Goodbye Mary Dear
B6 Milwaukiee Blues
[Credits]
The North Carolina Ramblers: Charlie Poole (banjo/vocals) Posey Rorer (fiddle) Roy Harvey (guitar)
[Notes]
County continues its excellent survey of works by this popular banjoist and vocalist with this third volume of rural, old-time string-band dance tunes, novelties, minstrel songs, and folk ballads. This time-capsule disc of Poole's North Carolina Ramblers features his nimble three-fingered playing and dry-humored tenor singing with fiddle and guitar. Their tunes were well received in their day; their first eight sides sold almost half a million copies by 1927, and their first two alone sold 167,000 in one year. These first-class transfers belie their age and make enjoying the music easy. This is moving stuff.-- AllMusic Review by Sigmund Finman

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