Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers-White House Blues (September 20, 1926)

[xJasbo]

charlie poole is coole



[RoboScreech]

@xJasbo agreed, sir!

[mouldybear]

This is the definitive version of this great song. Superb band.

[wildmapache]

Excellent. Greetings from Spain.

[GrumpyBoy86]

Yes, sir. True Americana. Lady Gaga eat yer heart out. Charlie Poole, gone but not forgotten.

[hamlin1947]

.....I mostly got acqainted with Charlie Poole in the seventies when County Records and others released his old old recordings.....I got everything I could by him....I understand his thing about drinking.....SURE WERE SOME GREAT PLAYERS.....wOODLIEF, RORER, hARVEY AND OTHERS.....Along with many others left us a lot of good stuff.....

[Lisa8364]

G-ma passed away before I was born. A few stories passed down though. Most people know his 3 finger style was because of hand injury from playing ball as a child. There's a story about him riding a horse (drunk) up a staircase one night after he had played. He visited with G-ma when he got the movie deal and she tried to talk to him about his drinking but he told her he couldn't play unless he was drinking. She was said to have been heartbroken when he died.

[Lisa8364]

Charlie was my grandmother's, Emma Poole Porter, first cousin. They grew up much like brother and sister and were close until the day he died.

[RoboScreech]

@Lisa8364 does she have any interesting stories about him? such a shame he died so young :(