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| High Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project |
| Label: Proper Records |
| Cat
No: PRPCD052 |
| Format: 2 CD Book Style |
| Genre: Folk |
| Barcode: 805520030526 |
Release Date: 03/08/09 |
Loudon Wainwright III, together with producer Dick Connette, has created one of the most ambitious projects of his career a grand gathering of songs, both old and original, revisiting the life, times and recorded legacy of legendary singer and banjo picker Charlie Poole (1892-1931).
Guests on the album include Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Sloan Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, the Roches, and Chris Thile.
The music ranges from old-timey, dixieland, parlour songs, to acapella gospel, a compendium of strains that continue to create American popular music.
The 2 CDs come in a lavish book style format with a 72 page booklet including introductory notes from Loudon and Charlie Poole biog.
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.
Tracks: 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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