Charlie Poole
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Poole was born in Spray (now part of Eden), Rockingham County, in the northern part of North Carolina, near the Virginia border. He spent much of his adult life working in textile mills. He learned banjo as a youth and also played baseball. His three-fingered playing technique was the result of a baseball accident. He had made a bet that he could catch a baseball without a glove but closed his hand too soon. The ball broke his thumb and resulted in a permanent arch in his right hand.
He bought his first good banjo, an Orpheum No. 3 Special, with profits from his moonshine still. Later, he appeared in the 1929 catalog of the Gibson Company, promoting their banjo.
Charlie Poole and his brother-in-law, fiddler Posey Rorer, formed a trio with guitarist Norm Woodlieff in 1925 called the North Carolina Ramblers. The group auditioned in New York for Columbia Records. After landing a contract, they recorded the hugely successful “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues.” This song sold over 102,000 copies at a time when there were estimated to be only 600,000 phonographs in the South, according to Poole’s biographer Kinney Rorrer. The band was paid $75 for the session.
For the next five years, Poole and the Ramblers was a very popular band. The band’s distinctive sound remained consistent though several members came and left, including Posey Rorer and Norm Woodlieff. In all, the band recorded over 60 songs for Columbia Records during the 1920s. These hits included: “Sweet Sunny South”, “White House Blues”, “He Rambled”, and “Take a Drink on Me”.
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CDPETE01
wow my last post here was three years ago,now listening to a four CD set I bought last year,Charlie Poole is the king of early country,only three post in last three years.
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UnaXoto
The Original bad boy of music
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Hicquodiam
This guy's amazing... like a grandfather to the Holy Modal Rounders
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whutupp
Very nice surprise.
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CDPETE01
you can say that again , I was the only shout at Blind Lemon
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foxtrotyankee
wow, surprised there isn't more activity on this page...
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lstusr
nice old-time musician!
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