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Charlie Poole

  • Charlie Poole to North Carolina Music Hall of Fame

    April 12, 2022 | by John Lawless

    The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame has announced that legendary banjo player and singer Charlie Poole will be inducted as a member in the 2022 class. Poole led a short and highly volatile life, but was quite popular along with

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  • Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole – David Davis

    June 18, 2018 | by Lee Zimmerman

    It’s a credit to the genre and its ability to evolve and find a fit with contemporary audiences that bluegrass — or grassicana as its current incarnation is often referred to — is open to so many methods of interpretation.

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  • My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

    July 24, 2015 | by John Lawless

    Nehi Records, a British label dedicated to producing audiophile quality remasters of early American folk music, has released a three-disc set titled My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean: British Songs In The USA. It contains 75 tracks captured from roughly 1920

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  • John McEuen honored by Charlie Poole Festival

    May 16, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    John McEuen, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, is to receive the 2013 Charlie Poole Lifetime Achievement Award. Banjo player McEuen, who is scheduled to top the bill at the 18th Annual Charlie Poole Music Festival, is to

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  • Old Friends – Doc Watson Memorial and Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame

    June 21, 2012 | by Art Menius

    With my return to the Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC area in April to join the staff of The ArtsCenter, life has been largely a reunion recently. Two recent trips to the mountains possibly turned out even more poignant for me in

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  • Congratulations to the Grammy winners

    February 1, 2010 | by John Lawless

    Hats off to Steve Martin, who won the Best Bluegrass Album award yesterday (1/31) at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards for The Crow - New Songs For The Five-String Banjo. It was a good day for banjo players overall at the

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  • Loudon Wainwright III tackles Charlie Poole

    June 26, 2009 | by John Lawless

    Charlie Poole and Loudon Wainwright III are two names you might not expect to find in close proximity. In fact, unless you were a follower of pop music in the 1970s or a serious student of old time string music

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