Biography

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Ashley Moyer
Rounder Records
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"As early as 2006, Ken Irwin of Rounder Records had mentioned to us the idea of recording an entire album featuring the songs of the Oldtime North Carolina recording artist Charlie Poole , who recorded approximately eighty songs from 1925 - 1930. We had recorded a Poole song on an album in 2006 and evolving the song came easily to us, in the way we play and sing music. Luckily, Ken liked our attitude on the offering and suggested going deeper in the Poole catalogue. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Poole recorded music whose origins were from Popular music of the time, Tin Pan Alley, Blues music, all which evolved very well into the rural stringband sound of the North Carolina Ramblers, becoming very popular to that day's audience.

When we started really listening to Poole's music, we easily realized this was the type material that a young Bill Monroe had listened to and drew essential ingredients from when shaping the sounds that became known as Blue Grass music, thus giving much credence for Charlie Poole to be considered the Grandfather of Bluegrass music or even Grandfather to a much larger roots based audience. ~ David Davis