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Article: TERRELL'S TUNE-UP.(Pasatiempo)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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Byline: STEVE TERRELL
Playing Poole
Loudon Wainwright III's High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project is not your typical tribute album.
In the liner notes, Wainwright says that this double-disc set is a "sonic bio-pic" about Charlie Poole, a man he has long fantasized about portraying in the movies -- a hard-living, ramblin', gamblin', singing moonshiner who was a big influence on him as well as on countless country, folk, and bluegrass singers and probably on more rock 'n' rollers than you might imagine. Wainwright, accompanied by his trusty musical family (including some of his offspring) plays lots of songs associated with Poole (who ...