Last night as I was driving home I heard an NPR story about a new album by Loudon Wainwright III called High Wide & Handsome: A Tribute to CharliePoole. Poole was among those early-twentieth-century musicians from Piedmont North Carolina mill villages whose hillbilly music and tunes from the textile mills helped shape what we [...]
/Shore Fire/ Loudon Wainwright III plots tour dates, appearance at New Yorker Festival, and a return to NBC's Parks And Recreation. Loudon Wainwright III's High Wide & Lonesome: The CharliePoole Project (2nd Story Sound Records) continues to earn glowing reviews but that's not the only thing keeping him busy for the fall. He has numerous tour dates, a discussion for the New Yorker...
... practitioners must have done (as evidenced by recordings from Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers and CharliePoole, among others), which formed quite a contrast with the more scholarly and stately performances that were common at the time. Highwoods cut this project after a long season on the road in 1972, where they developed their trademark sound and stage persona, and it comes through...
... insightful review of Loudon Wainwright III’s new album, a two-CD tribute to singer and banjoist CharliePoole called High Wide & Handsome: The CharliePoole Project, over at NPR. read full article : News Roundup: Neko Case, Death Cab For Cutie, John Fogerty, Loudon Wainwright americansongwriter.com
Loudon Wainwright III has recently undertaken the ambitious task of writing songs that possibly an American folk hero named CharliePoole might have given voice to had he not sabotaged his own career trajectory. Both CharliePoole (the famed American banjo player and noted song interpreter) and Loudon Wainwright III enjoyed considerable acclaim after the release of a novelty...