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High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
Folk · 2009 · 30 tracks · 1h 39m

High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

Loudon Wainwright III

A sprawling, double-disc tribute to old-time music pioneer Charlie Poole. Rich with banjo, fiddle, and Wainwright's signature tragicomic storytelling.

August 17, 2009 · 2nd Story Sound Records

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A dusty, affectionate, and bittersweet celebration of old-time music and tragic lives.

Tracklist · 30 Tracks · 1h 39m
01
High Wide & Handsome
2:50
01
The Man in the Moon
2:32
02
The Deal
4:09
02
Took My Gal Out Walkin'
2:32
03
No Knees
2:22
03
I'm the Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World
3:36
04
Moving Day
2:37
04
My Mother and My Sweetheart
3:11
05
Bill Mason's Bride
2:55
05
Old and Only in the Way
3:45
06
Ragtime Annie
3:34
06
Goodbye Booze
2:53
07
Old Ballyhoo
1:59
07
Sweet Sunny South
2:42
08
Little Waterloo
2:54
08
The Letter That Never Came
3:08
09
I'm Glad I'm Married
3:32
09
Awful Hungry Hash House
4:29
10
Mother's Last Farewell Kiss
4:45
10
Rowena
2:33
11
Acres of Diamonds
2:48
11
Didn't He Ramble
4:00
12
Ramblin' Blues
4:00
12
Way Up in NYC
4:07
13
If I Lose
3:58
13
Charlie's Last Song
5:00
14
The Great Reaping Day
2:49
14
Beautiful
4:00
15
High Wide & Handsome (reprise)
2:07
15
Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight
3:22
Moments Worth Listening For
The transition from the rowdy, celebratory title track into the quiet, reflective banjo picking of The Man in the Moon.
The weary, whiskey-soaked vocal delivery on Goodbye Booze that captures the tragic weight of Charlie Poole's own struggles.
The rich, multi-part vocal harmonies on Mother's Last Farewell Kiss that evoke the sentimental parlor music of the late nineteenth century.

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