With the North Carolina Ramblers and the Highlanders (2005)

About this title: Charlie Poole wasn't a particularly brilliant banjo player (although his later three-finger-style picking would set the table for the advent of bluegrass banjo a couple of decades after his death), and he wasn't the world's greatest vocalist either, but he had a certain devil-may-care charisma that made him a superstar in the string band era of the 1920s. Poole's greatest talent -- aside from an ability to go on long drinking sprees and to manage to be at the center of things even in his absence -- was in his song adaptations, which drew from sources outside the standard Appalachian fiddle ... read more

Tracks:

1. The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee [Traditional/Braiste]
2. I'm the Man That Rode the Mule Around the World [Poole]
3. Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister
4. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues [Poole]
5. Flyin' Clouds
6. Wild Horse
7. Forks of Sandy
8. Mountain Reel
9. Goodbye Booze [Havez]
10. Monkey on a String
11. The Brave Engineer
12. Too Young to Marry
13. Ragtime Annie
14. Leaving Home [Leighton/Leighton]
15. Budded Rose
16. There'll Come a Time [Harris/Tin Pan Alle]
17. White House Blues [Traditional]
18. The Highwayman
19. Hungry Hash House
20. If I Lose, I Don't Care
21. You Ain't Talkin' to Me [Poole/Brooks/Marsha]
22. From Tennessee
23. The Letter That Never Came [Dresser/Sturm]
24. Falling By the Wayside [Poole]
25. Take a Drink on Me [Poole]
26. Sunset March [Gregory]
27. The Wreck of the Virginian No. 3
28. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Medley
29. Please Papa Come Home
30. The Old Clay Pipe
31. Write a Letter to My Mother [Bowers/Issacs/Bower]
32. Poor Little Joe
33. We Will Outshine the Sun
34. Walking On the Streets of Glory
35. I Cannot Call Her Mother
36. Pearl Bryant
37. Take Back the Ring
38. Give My Love to Nell
39. My Mother and My Sweetheart
40. She Is Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage
41. Bill Mason [Traditional]
42. Kitty Blye
43. I'm Glad I'm Married
44. Sweet Sunny South [Bloomfield/Raymond]
45. Blue Eyes [Traditional]
46. The Bluefield Murder
47. I'll Be There Mary Dear
48. What Is Home Without Love
49. There'll Come a Time [Harris/Tin Pan Alle]
50. George Collins
51. As We Parted at the Gate
52. There's a Mother Old and Gray Who Needs Me Now
53. Sweet Refrain
54. Budded Roses
55. Take Me Back to Home and Mother
56. A Young Boy Left His Home One Day
57. My Wife Went Away and Left Me [Poole/Vann]
58. I Once Loved a Sailor [Evans/Shields/Evans]
59. Husband and Wife Were Angry One Night [Davis]
60. Ramblin' Blues [Handy]
61. Took My Gal A-Walkin'
62. What Is Home Without Babies
63. Jealous Mary [Poole]
64. Old and Only in the Way [Woody/Billings/Down]
65. Shootin' Creek
66. Bill Mason [Traditional]
67. Goodbye Mary Dear [Sterling/VonTilzer]
68. Leaving Dear Old Ireland
69. Baltimore Fire
70. Sweet Sunny South [Bloomfield/Raymond]
71. He Rambled [Handy]
72. Under the Double Eagle
73. Richmond Square
74. Flop Eared Mule
75. Lynchburg Town
76. San Antonio
77. What Is a Home Without Babies
78. Tennessee Blues
79. Sweet Sixteen

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