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High Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon once told me that when he was starting out, Charlie Poole meant a lot to him. So for his 59th birthday, I bought him a 3 CD set (and one for myself). A couple years later I got around to listening to the collection, and imagined I knew what it was that attracted Loudon to Poole to begin with - the humor, the clarity, the simplicity, the wise guy attitude, and, occasionally, an unapologetic emotional sincerity. So in December of 2007, I proposed, for fun, that he and I make an album, recording songs that Charlie recorded, plus writing new songs from Poole's point of view or about his life and times. I also suggested that we not worry about trying to recreate the Poole sound, that we just respond to what we loved in the recordings and see where that took us. Loudon, being pragmatic, suggested we start off recording demos and see how it went. Well, it went - soon we had dozens, and by the end it grew into a 2 CD set, with 30 songs, 10 of them originals, and a deluxe package with a 72 page booklet! It all was so much fun that I'm sorry we ever finished, but I'm extremely pleased with how it came out and proud to have been a part of it.
High Wide & Handsome (8/18/09) is available for purchase and download at Amazon
and for download from iTunes and eMusic
There's a website devoted to the project with lots of content, including 17 video shorts. Also, Loudon's got his own website and a page on MySpace
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