Charlie Poole Box Set Out May 17, 2006 On Columbia/Legacy

NASHVILLE, TN. (By Kay Clary/ Commotion PR) - CHARLIE POOLE was a hard-driving, hard-drinking Depression-era character-mill-worker, bootlegger, scalawag-who lived fast and died young at age 39.
Amid the hijinks and low-life, though, Poole left his indelible mark on a century of music, from Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff, Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams to Earl Scruggs and Don Reno, from Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott to the New Lost City Ramblers and Bob Dylan, and from the Holy Modal Rounders, Jerry Garcia and his group whose name draws from a Poole song (Old & In The Way) to John Mellencamp and today's generation of alt-country rockers who are embarking on their own rediscovery of Charlie Poole.
What Robert Johnson was to blues and rock'n'roll, Charlie Poole was to bluegrass, folk, and modern country music.