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oh my GOD [gaw-uhD] if u don't love the dickens out of the 1st disc alone i don't know what to do with ur country a$$ - this picks the hell out of most old-style country blues and I oughta know  if you need the liner notes get the box but damn it all with making a living off of dead folks, ya see!? - frosty


Disc: 1  
1. Shootin' Creek - Charlie Poole,  
2. Baltimore Fire - Charlie Poole,  
3. Leaving Home - Charlie Poole, Leighton, F.  
4. There'll Come a Time - Charlie Poole, Harris, C.K.  
5. White House Blues - Charlie Poole, Traditional  
6. The Highwayman - Charlie Poole,  
7. Hungry Hash House - Charlie Poole,  
8. The Letter That Never Came - Charlie Poole, Dresser, P.  
9. Take a Drink on Me - Charlie Poole, Poole  
10. Husband and Wife Were Angry One Night - Charlie Poole, Davis, G.L.  
11. Ramblin' Blues - Charlie Poole, Handy, W.C.  
12. Took My Gal A-Walkin' - Charlie Poole,  
13. Old and Only in the Way - Charlie Poole, Downing, P.J.  
14. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues - Charlie Poole, Poole, Charlie  
15. Bill Mason - Charlie Poole, Harte, B.  
16. A Kiss Waltz - Charlie Poole,  
17. Flop Eared Mule - Charlie Poole,  
18. A Trip to New York, Pt. 1 - Charlie Poole,  
19. Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole,  
20. Write a Letter to My Mother - Charlie Poole, Bowers, E.  
21. If the River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole,  
22. Mother's Last Farewell Kiss - Charlie Poole, Poole, Charlie  
23. Milwaukee Blues - Charlie Poole,  
24. Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Good-Night - Charlie Poole,  

Disc: 2  
1. The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee - Charlie Poole, Carter, S.  
2. Sunny Tennessee - Charlie Poole, Carter, S.  
3. Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee - Charlie Poole,  
4. Moving Day - Charlie Poole, Sterling, A.  
5. It's Movin' Day - Charlie Poole, Sterling, A.  
6. Home Sweet, Home - Charlie Poole, Payne, J.H.  
7. I'm the Man That Rode the Mule 'Round the World - Charlie Poole,  
8. Man That Rode the Mule Around the World - Charlie Poole, Traditional  
9. Lynchburg Town - Charlie Poole,  
10. Going Down to Lynchburg Town/Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Charlie Poole,  
11. Some One - Charlie Poole,  
12. Monkey on a String - Charlie Poole,  
13. Monkey on a String - Charlie Poole,  
14. Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister - Charlie Poole,  
15. May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister - Charlie Poole,  
16. Married Life Blues - Charlie Poole,  
17. The Infanta March - Charlie Poole, Gregory, G.W.  
18. Sunset March - Charlie Poole, Gregory, G.W.  
19. I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - Charlie Poole,  
20. Goodbye Eliza Jane - Charlie Poole, VonTilzer, H.  
21. Good-Bye Sweet Liza Jane - Charlie Poole, VonTilzer, H.  
22. Good-Bye Booze - Charlie Poole, Havez, J.C.  
23. Goodbye Booze - Charlie Poole, Havez, J.C.  
24. You Ain't Talking to Me - Charlie Poole, Marshall, M.  
25. You Ain't Talkin' to Me - Charlie Poole, Marshall, M.  

Disc: 3  
1. If I Lose, I Don't Care - Charlie Poole,  
2. The Battleship of Maine - Charlie Poole,  
3. Budded Rose - Charlie Poole,  
4. Standing by a Window - Charlie Poole,  
5. Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo - Charlie Poole, Macon, Uncle Dave  
6. Come Take a Trip in My Airship - Charlie Poole, Evans, G.  
7. I Once Loved a Sailor - Charlie Poole, Evans, G.  
8. Dixie Medley - Charlie Poole,  
9. My Wife, She Has Gone and Left Me - Charlie Poole, Vann, C.D.  
10. My Wife Went Away and Left Me - Charlie Poole, Vann, C.D.  
11. Baby Rose - Charlie Poole, Weslyn, L.  
12. Just Keep Waiting Till the Good Time Comes - Charlie Poole, Weslyn, L.  
13. Shuffle Feet, Shuffle - Charlie Poole,  
14. Coon From Tennessee - Charlie Poole, Edmonds, S.N.  
15. Coon From Tennessee - Charlie Poole, Edmonds, S.N.  
16. On the Banks of the Kaney - Charlie Poole,  
17. Dixie Medley - Charlie Poole,  
18. Southern Medley - Charlie Poole, Poole, Charlie  
19. The Man That Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man - Charlie Poole, Brown, F.J.  
20. Sweet Sunny South - Charlie Poole, Bloomfield, W.L.  
21. Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South - Charlie Poole, Bloomfield, W.L.  
22. Oh! Didn't He Ramble - Charlie Poole, Handy, W.  
23. He Rambled - Charlie Poole, Handy, W.

  
It's fitting that this Charlie Poole box set comes in a beat-up cigar box. Enclosed are the stories, both in song and print, that serve to foreshadow a stereotypical hard-living country musician. Poole's tunes of gambling, girls, guns, and gin are real-world tales of a rambling drifter and fighter with a bum pickin' hand (broken on a drunken dare) and broken teeth (shot out during a run-in with the law). 
The cover illustration by R. Crumb and the photos enclosed within hardly hint at Poole's being one of country music's earliest outlaws--rather, they portray him as a coiffed businessman-cum-banjo. It is in the three discs and the 35-page booklet that we begin to see a true picture of Charlie Poole. Though he didn't write the songs, he sang his rough-and-tumble life in the ones he chose: "Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister?," "Husband and Wife Were Angry One Night," and "I'm the Man That Rode the Mule 'Round the World." These are songs of a simple and stubborn man in trying times. It's not all misery and strife though. The pure George Formby style of "Monkey on a String" hints at a lighter side. "Sunset March" (inspired by Fred van Eps's "Infanta March," also included in this set) may be the track that best gets at Poole's banjo style. 
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"Hellions both, the pair loved nothing more than traveling, raising Cain, playing music, and having a drink, and another tune, and another drink." 
--Henry "Hank" Sapoznik on Poole and close friend Posey Wilson Rorrer (from the booklet) 
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It's not the lightning speed that the world would hear in the bluegrass greats, but a unique clawhammer arpeggio plucking style that comes across rough yet streetwise, like the player himself. 

Not all the tracks in this set are performed by Poole, hence the subtitle ...and the Roots of Country Music. Also included are a couple dozen tracks recorded by Poole's mentors and contemporaries, giving excellent context to Poole's work. The term "bluegrass" was yet to be coined and the country outlaw profile was still a good 20 years away. It's surprising to learn that Charlie Poole only recorded and released records during a five-year period leading up to the hell-bent bender that led directly to his death at 39. 

In terms of packaging, this box set is top-notch. The design, typography, and photographs are as genuine as the music. The booklet contains a brief introduction by Roanoke, Virginia, DJ Kinney Rorrer, whose father was close with Poole. Also included are accounts of Charlie's run-ins with hecklers, women, and the law, as well as an in-depth bio that surely contains the majority of what is known of his short life. Perhaps only Rorrer's out-of-print Rambling Blues: The Life and Songs of Charlie Poole reveals more about this grandfather of country music and godfather to country ruffians. --Peter Hilgendorf 

Anthony DeCurtis ROLLING STONE
Rating: **** "Poole's jazz-oriented flair for swinging rhythms shaped a style that blazed a trail to the future."