Legend of Charlie Poole, Vol. 3 (1999)

About this title: 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 ... read more

Tracks:

1. Look Before You Leap
2. Goodbye Liza Jane [Sterling/VonTilzer]
3. Leaving Dear Old Ireland
4. Hungry Hash House
5. Milwaukee Blues
6. Goodbye Booze [Havez]
7. Too Young to Marry
8. The Highwayman
9. Write a Letter to My Mother [Issacs/Bowers]
10. The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee [Traditional]
11. My Wife Went Away and Left Me [Poole]
12. Old and Only in the Way [Woody]
13. I Once Loved a Sailor [Evans/Shields]
14. Forks of Sandy
15. I'm the Man That Rode the Mule Around the World [Poole]
16. Goodbye Mary Dear [Sterling/VonTilzer]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.