Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music [3CD Box Set] (2005)

Artist: Charlie Poole
Title Of Album: You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music
Year Of Release: 2005
Label (Catalog#): Columbia/Legacy C3K 92780
Country: United States
Genre: Country, Folk, Bluegrass
Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 3:42:56
Full Size: 770 mb
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First, a word about what You Ain't Talkin' to Me is not: it is not a box set of Charlie Poole's complete recorded work. He recorded some 110 songs for the Columbia, Paramount, and Brunswick labels between 1925 and 1931, and 43 of those tracks are collected here, with the balance of this three-disc set given over to sides by Poole's stylistic predecessors and contemporaries. Creating a feel for Poole's life and milieu is the goal here, and presenting musical evidence to place him as the clear grandfather of both bluegrass and modern country is the not-so-hidden agenda. Poole was never an overwhelming banjo player, but his three-finger picking style certainly carries trace elements of what would become bluegrass some 20 years later (when a banjo whiz named Earl Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's band in 1946). Poole wasn't a particularly strong singer, either, but his rambling, gambling persona and flamboyant stage antics (and frequent multi-week alcoholic benders) provide convincing evidence that Poole was outlaw country five decades before the term was even born. Poole's real genius -- since he didn't write songs -- was his ability to take folk tunes, pop songs, fiddle reels, blues fragments, and church hymns and reconfigure them into autobiographical statements by dropping or importing a verse, adding a stray line here and there, changing the title, and eventually delivering fresh, stripped-down versions of familiar songs that now seemed entirely Poole's. What You Ain't Talkin' to Me does best is document how this process worked, and after a first disc of acknowledged Poole classics ("Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues," "White House Blues," "If the River Was Whiskey," "Ramblin' Blues"), the second and third discs present Poole songs alongside their antecedents in what is essentially a workshop in how pop folk is created in a mechanized age. On disc three, for example, you hear Arthur Collins' 1902 version of "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" as a heavily stylized and orchestrated bit of vaudeville. In Poole's hands, stripped down and shaped into a sinewy, sexy, and bluesy ensemble piece for banjo, guitar, and fiddle, it became the self-referential "He Rambled" in 1929. Similarly, Eddie Morton's civil and orchestrated "You Ain't Talking to Me" from 1909 becomes an ominous barroom boast in Poole's version, released as "You Ain't Talkin' to Me" in 1927. This ability to create new possibilities from old choices is what has driven American music from the very beginning, and Poole's talent for making it all seem like personal autobiography makes him very much a modernist, only a short leap away from an artist like Hank Williams. Doubters need only listen to Poole's "If I Lose, I Don't Care," which leads off the third disc, to clearly see the kind of DNA that went into modern country. As a glimpse of Poole's life and times, and a look behind the curtains at the adaptive nature of his creative process, this attractive set (it comes in a small cigar box with a R. Crumb illustration of Poole on the lid and includes a 60-page book insert) does a super job, but listeners should be aware that it is hardly comprehensive. Those interested in a more extensive sampling of Poole's work should check out JSP's four-disc box, Charlie Poole With the North Carolina Ramblers and the Highlanders, which features 96 of his 110 known recordings.

:: TRACKLIST ::

1-1 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Shootin' Creek 3:24
1-2 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Baltimore Fire 3:12
1-3 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Leaving Home 3:09
1-4 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - There'll Come A Time 3:29
1-5 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - White House Blues 3:29
1-6 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers 0 The Highwayman 3:18
1-7 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Hungry Hash House 3:23
1-8 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - The Letter That Never Came 2:49
1-9 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Take A Drink On Me 3:15
1-10 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Husband And Wife Were Angry One Night 2:51
1-11 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Ramblin' Blues 3:06
1-12 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Took My Gal A-Walkin' 2:48
1-13 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Old And Only In The Way 3:28
1-14 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues 2:53
1-15 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Bill Mason 3:00
1-16 The North Carolina Ramblers (Led By Posey Rorer) - A Kiss Waltz 3:09
1-17 The Highlanders - Flop Eared Mule 2:59
1-18 Allegheny Highlanders - A Trip To New York Part 1 3:05
1-19 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sixteen 2:54
1-20 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Write A Letter To My Mother 3:01
1-21 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - If The River Were Whiskey 3:09
1-22 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Mother's Last Farewell Kiss 3:04
1-23 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Milwaukee Blues 3:17
1-24 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Good-Night 3:09

2-1 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee 3:20
2-2 Floyd County Ramblers - Sunny Tennessee 3:16
2-3 Dock Walsh - Bulldog Down In Sunny Tennessee 2:40
2-4 Arthur Collins - Moving Day 3:13
2-5 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - It's Movin' Day 3:27
2-6 Frank Jenkins - Home Sweet Home 2:33
2-7 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - I'm The Man That Rode The Mule 'Round The World 3:03
2-8 Uncle Dave Macon & Sid Harkreader - Man That Rode The Mule Around The World 2:55
2-9 The Highlanders - Lynchburg Town 3:00
2-10 Blue Ridge Highballers - Going Down To Lynchburg Town/Don't Let Your Deal Go Down 3:08
2-11 Branch & Colman - Some One 3:03
2-12 Cal Stewart - Monkey On A String 2:31
2-13 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Monkey On A String 3:07
2-14 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister 3:12
2-15 The Red Fox Chasers - May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister 2:51
2-16 Byron Parker And His Mountaineers - Married Life Blues 2:41
2-17 Fred Van Eps - The Infanta March 4:20
2-18 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Sunset March 2:39
2-19 Carter & Young - I'll Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 2:58
2-20 Peerless Quartet - Goodbye Eliza Jane 1:37
2-21 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Good-Bye Sweet Liza Jane 3:04
2-22 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Good-Bye Booze 3:15
2-23 Gid Tanner & Fate Norris - Goodbye Booze 2:50
2-24 Eddie Morton - You Ain't Talking To Me 2:54
2-25 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - You Ain't Talking To Me 2:57

3-1 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - If I Lose, I Don't Care 3:07
3-2 Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers - The Battleship Of Maine 3:18
3-3 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Budded Rose 3:03
3-4 Clay Everheart & The North Carolina Cooper Boys - Standing By A Window 3:15
3-5 Uncle Dave Macon - Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo 3:04
3-6 Billy Murray - Come Take A Trip In My Airship 2:11
3-7 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - I Once Loved A Sailor 3:06
3-8 Sam Moore & Carl Freed - Dixie Medley 2:44
3-9 Kelly Harrell & Virginia String Band - My Wife, She Has Gone And Left Me 3:16
3-10 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - My Wife Went Away And Left Me 2:55
3-11 Billy Murray - Baby Rose 4:13
3-12 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Just Keep Waiting Till The Good Time Comes 3:26
3-13 Henry Whitter, Fisher Hendley & Marshall Small - Shuffle Feet, Shuffle 2:39
3-14 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Coon From Tennessee 3:11
3-15 Georgia Crackers - Coon From Tennessee 3:05
3-16 Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - On The Banks Of The Kaney 3:06
3-17 Fred Van Eps - Dixie Medley 4:10
3-18 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Southern Medley 3:05
3-19 Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - The Man That Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man 3:13
3-20 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sunny South 2:54
3-21 Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South 2:45
3-22 Arthur Collins - Oh! Didn't He Ramble 2:10
3-23 Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers - He Rambled 3:01

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