Charlie Poole - With The North Carolina Ramblers and The Highlanders (4 CD Box Set) (2005)

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Artist: Charlie Poole
Title: With The North Carolina Ramblers and The Highlanders
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: JSP Records
Genre: Country, Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 04:25:35
Total Size: 592 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1
01. Charlie Poole - The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee [3:32]
02. Charlie Poole - I'm The Man That Rode The Mule Around The World [3:14]
03. Charlie Poole - Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister [3:11]
04. Charlie Poole - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues [2:53]
05. Charlie Poole - Flyin' Clouds [3:18]
06. Charlie Poole - Wild Horse [3:09]
07. Charlie Poole - Forks Of Sandy [2:59]
08. Charlie Poole - Mountain Reel [3:05]
09. Charlie Poole - Goodbye Booze [3:17]
10. Charlie Poole - Monkey On A String [3:08]
11. Charlie Poole - The Brave Engineer [3:19]
12. Charlie Poole - Too Young To Marry [3:07]
13. Charlie Poole - Ragtime Annie [3:14]
14. Charlie Poole - Frankie and Johnny (Leaving Home) [3:12]
15. Charlie Poole - Budded Rose [3:04]
16. Charlie Poole - There'll Come a Time [3:31]
17. Charlie Poole - Mackinley (White House Blues) [3:30]
18. Charlie Poole - Prickly Bush (The Highwayman) [3:18]
19. Charlie Poole - Hungry Hash House [3:25]
20. Charlie Poole - If I Lose, I Don't Care [3:07]
21. Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me [2:57]
22. Charlie Poole - From Tennessee [3:10]
23. Charlie Poole - The Letter That Never Came [2:50]
24. Charlie Poole - Falling By The Wayside [3:06]

Disc 2
01. Charlie Poole - Take a Drink On Me [3:16]
02. Charlie Poole - Sunset March [2:39]
03. Charlie Poole - Wreck of the Virginian No. 3 [3:10]
04. Charlie Poole - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Medley [3:15]
05. Charlie Poole - Please, Papa Come Home [3:02]
06. Charlie Poole - The Old Clay Pipe [3:00]
07. Charlie Poole - Write a Letter to My Mother [3:04]
08. Charlie Poole - Poor Little Joe [3:20]
09. Charlie Poole - We Will Outshine the Sun [2:53]
10. Charlie Poole - Walking on the Streets of Glory [2:44]
11. Charlie Poole - I Can Not Call Her Mother [3:00]
12. Charlie Poole - Pearl Bryant [3:05]
13. Charlie Poole - Take Back the Ring [2:50]
14. Charlie Poole - Give My Love to Nell [2:59]
15. Charlie Poole - My Mother and My Sweetheart [2:59]
16. Charlie Poole - Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage [3:13]
17. Charlie Poole - Bill Mason [2:38]
18. Charlie Poole - Kitty Blye [2:39]
19. Charlie Poole - I'm Glad I'm Married [2:54]
20. Charlie Poole - Sweet Sunny South [2:47]
21. Charlie Poole - Blue Eyes [2:44]
22. Charlie Poole - The Bluefield Murder [3:06]
23. Charlie Poole - I'll Be There, Mary Dear [3:06]
24. Charlie Poole - What Is Home Without Love [2:59]
25. Charlie Poole - There'll Come a Time [2:53]

Disс 3
01. Charlie Poole - George Collins [2:51]
02. Charlie Poole - As We Parted at the Gate [2:53]
03. Charlie Poole - There's a Mother Old and Gray [3:01]
04. Charlie Poole - Sweet Refrain [2:54]
05. Charlie Poole - Budded Roses [2:48]
06. Charlie Poole - Take Me Back to Home and Mother [2:47]
07. Charlie Poole - A Young Boy Left His Home One Day [3:08]
08. Charlie Poole - My Wife Went Away and Left Me [2:56]
09. Charlie Poole - I Once Loved a Sailor [3:07]
10. Charlie Poole - Husband and Wife Were Angry One Night [2:51]
11. Charlie Poole - Ramblin' Blues [3:07]
12. Charlie Poole - Took My Gal A-Walkin' [2:48]
13. Charlie Poole - What Is Home Without Babies [2:51]
14. Charlie Poole - Jealous Mary [3:00]
15. Charlie Poole - Old and Only in the Way [3:28]
16. Charlie Poole - Shootin' Creek [3:25]
17. Charlie Poole - Bill Mason [3:01]
18. Charlie Poole - Goodbye Mary Dear [2:54]
19. Charlie Poole - Leaving Dear Old Ireland [3:01]
20. Charlie Poole - Baltimore Fire [3:13]
21. Charlie Poole - Sweet Sunny South [2:55]
22. Charlie Poole - He Rambled [2:59]

Disc: 4
1. Under the Double Eagle
2. Richmond Square
3. Flop Eared Mule
4. Lynchburg Town
5. San Antonio
6. What Is a Home Without Babies
7. Tennessee Blues
8. May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister
9. A Trip to New York, Pt. 1: On the Train
10. A Trip to New York, Pt. 2: The Audition
11. A Trip to New York, Pt. 3: In New York
12. A Trip to New York, Pt. 4: In the Studio
13. Sweet Sixteen
14. My Gypsy Girl
15. The Only Girl I Ever Loved
16. Write a Letter to My Mother
17. If the River Was Whiskey
18. It's Movin' Day
19. Southern Medley
20. Honeysuckle
21. Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane
22. Look Before You Leap
23. Just Keep Waiting Till the Good Time Comes
24. Milwaukee Blues
25. Where the Whipoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight

Charlie Poole was one of the founding fathers of recorded country music. His distinctive voice and innovative banjo playing have made Poole legendary. His band, The North Carolina Ramblers featured equally accomplished musicians. Charlie was born in 1892, in North Carolina. Around 1900 his family moved to Haw River in search of mill work. Charlie worked in the mill from an early age. Hours were long and wages were poor - $3 a week is cited. As to music, he appears to have made himself a banjo out of a gourd. Once at work he bought a proper instrument. In 1912 he married. The relationship failed, due to his rambling habits, but did produce a son. On one of his rambling jaunts, around 1917, he met fiddle player Posey Rorer. The third member of what would become the North Carolina Ramblers was guitarist Norman Woodlief. Poole claimed they'd recorded at a field session for OKeh in 1925 but no discs have been found. In July 1925, the three travelled to New York to cut four sides for Columbia. Poole would remain with the label until his final recording session. The four pieces cut at the initial Columbia session are presented here in the order they were cut but Columbia issued Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight b/w Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues. The sales were 102,000 at a time when 5000 was reckoned a good seller and 20,000 a hit. The Ramblers took up music full time. At some point Woodlief left the group although he did perform with them occasionally. The fine guitarist Roy Harvey replaced him. With their first issues a success Columbia wanted the Ramblers back in the studios - which Charlie was disinclined to do. He may have been dissatisfied with his royalties and felt the longer he ignored Columbia's pleadings the better the terms he'd get. In fact he did return often to the studio - producing in the process some of the finest music of the era. His waywardness persisted. He died in 1931 after a drinking bout that allegedly had lasted three months.

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