High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

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Cat No: PRPCD052

Release Date: 17 August 2009

Label: Proper Records

Packaging Type: Hard Back book

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 805520030526

Genres: Folk Americana

Description
Banjo player and singer Charlie Poole was one of Loudon's first models when he began singing and playing over 40 years ago. Now, together with producer/songwriter Dick Connette, he has put together a double album dedicated to the music and life of his early inspiration. Most of the songs recast the original recordings from the 20's and 30's, but Wainwright and Connette have also written 9 new songs around and about Poole's life and times. The album features over 20 singers and musicians, including Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Sloan Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, David Roche, the Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy), and featuring a special guest appearance by mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile. From string quartet to swing trio, from old timey string band to acappella gospel, what they've’ve found in the Poole repertoire, besides the expected nascent country and bluegrass, has been astounding in its range - sentimental songs, vaudeville songs, minstrel songs, early jazz songs, British Ballad variants, Dixie melodies, comedy routines - it’s like a condensed compendium of all the strains that have created and continue to create American popular music.
Track listing:
CD1 - High Wide & Handsome / Took My Gal Out Walkin' / I'm the Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World / My Mother And My Sweetheart / Bill Mason’s Bride / Goodbye Booze / Old Ballyhoo / Little Waterloo / I'm Glad I'm Married / Mother's Last Farewell Kiss / Acres of Diamonds / Way Up In NYC / If I Lose / The Great Reaping Day / Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight.
CD2 - The Man In The Moon / The Deal / No Knees / Moving Day / Old and Only In the Way / Ragtime Annie / Sweet Sunny South / The Letter That Never Came / Awful Hungry Hash House / Rowena / Didn't He Ramble / Ramblin' Blues / Charlie's Last Song / Beautiful / High Wide & Handsome (reprise).
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