Charlie poole biography

Charles Cleveland Poole (March 22, 1892 – May 21, 1931) was an American old-time musician and leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, a string band that.
Charles Cleveland Poole was an American old-time musician and leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, a string band that recorded many popular hillbilly songs between 1925 and 1930.
A native of Randolph County, Charlie Poole grew up in Alamance County in a cotton mill village and later became one of the best banjo musicians in the.

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Hard-Living Tar Heel Charlie Poole A Pioneer of Banjo Music

Recently I was thumbing through my copy of Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, an anthology of collected essays by noted historian H. G. Jones. (He wrote a weekly column from 1969-1986.) The editors Randell Jones and Caitlin Jones, unrelated to the history columnist, write that the columns were (and are) “entertaining stories about the heroes and the ne’er-do-wells who make Tar Heel history so colorful.” One such Tar Heel was Charlie Poole (1892-1931), a musician born in Randolph County, who grew up in nearby Alamance County.

Like many in the Piedmont during the early 1900s, Poole worked in a textile mill. He also landed various jobs in Virginia and West Virginia before returning to North Carolina, winding up in Rockingham County. From the mill town culture, North Carolina Ramblers were formed and Poole’s music took a professional turn while the United States fought in World War I. Although Poole had performed in various states by 1924, Poole and his band had not yet peaked.

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Tui St. George Tucker was born in California and attended Occidental College from 1941 to 1944 before moving to New York, where she established herself as a virtuoso recorder player. She was an active composer and often experimented with microtonal composition but was also influenced greatly by plainsong and Baroque music.

She is best remembered for her association with Camp Catawba in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a summer camp for boys founded by the poet Vera Lachmann in 1944. In addition to the usual summer camp activities, Camp Catawba provided cultural exposure to art, music, literature, and drama. Tucker served as the camp's music director, under whose guidance campers performed music ranging from medieval plainsong and polyphony to contemporary American works, from 1947 until it closed in 1970.

In 1985 she inherited the camp grounds from Lachmann. In accordance with Lachman's wishes, Tucker sold the grounds to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation while retaining a life estate. She lived on the grounds from 1985 until her death in 2004, contin

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Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu

Charlie Clay Poole (22 Mar. 1892-21 May 1931), pioneer country music recording artist, banjoist, singer, and entertainer, was born in Randolph County, the son of Philip, whose father was an Irish immigrant, and Betty Johnson Poole. Both parents were mill workers in Haw River, Alamance County, where they had moved from Iredell County. Young Poole apparently developed a strong interest in music while still a small child. Due to his poor rural background he could not afford formal musical training, so he made himself a banjo out of a gourd and taught himself to play. It was only after he had gone to work in a local textile mill that he bought himself a real banjo for $1.50.

The exact source of Poole's unique three-finger picking style is not known although it is possible that he learned to pick in a rolling style by listening to the early recordings of such classical artists a