A Focus on Country Music Icon Charlie Poole
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Topic: Country Music
Sort Desciption: A Focus on Country Music Icon Charlie Poole. Cityfolk’s Music on Film Series will begin on Thursday, January 11 with a preview of George Goehl’s ...
Content Inside: NEWS RELEASE Contact Dave Barber December 22, 2006 (938) 223-3655 x 3015 or dbarber@cityfolk.org PHOTOS AVAILABLE at ‘For the Media’ on www.cityfolk.org Cityfolk Music on Film Series Begins With A Focus on Country Music Icon Charlie Poole Cityfolk’s Music on Film Series will begin on Thursday, January 11 with a preview of George Goehl’s documentary North Carolina Rambler: The Legend of Charlie Poole. Goehl will be on hand to show parts of his forthcoming film, talk about its creation, and discuss the life and music of its subject, singer and banjoist Charlie Poole. The Corndrinkers will perform selections of Poole’s music live at the event. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 PM at Sears Recital Hall in the Jesse Phillips Humanities Center on the UD campus. Poole’s music is widely considered to be one of the primary building blocks in the development of country music. His career gained traction in the mid-1920s when Poole and his brother-in-law, fiddler Posey Rorer, formed a trio with guitarist Norm Woodlieff called the North Carolina Ramblers. After auditioning in New York for Columbia Records, they landed a contract and recorded the hugely successful "Dont Let Your Deal Go Down Blues." The 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 biographer Kinney Rorrer. The band was paid $75 for the session. For the next five years, Poole and the Ramblers were extraordinarily popular. They recorded over 60 songs for Columbia during the 1920s including the hits "Sweet Sunny South", "White House Blues", “He Rambled”, and “Take a Drink on Me”. In addition to being a talented musician, Poole was a fast-living and hard-drinking man. His life ended after an alcoholic binge in May 1931. According to some reports, he was disheartened by the slump in record sales due to the Depression. Others credit h ...
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