NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Loudon Wainwright III, producer Dick Connette, and director Michael Grenadier have created a series of new videos that pull back the curtain on the making of 'High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project,' which can be viewed on YouTube or at https://www.thecharliepooleproject.com. After Connette shared the idea of exploring Poole's life and music, Wainwright feverishly made demos that captured the zeitgeist of the project early on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEK_QCNlNek Wainwright also wrote new songs for the project. He found letters from his grandfather to his grandmother dating from and in the epistolary style of Poole's time, which he and Connette fashioned into one of the albums' most touching moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz6J8CF5GXc Chaim Tannenbaum (banjo, guitar, harmonica) and longtime collaborator David Mansfield (violin, mandolin, slide guitar; Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams) tested early arrangements at an informal show in a Lower East Side community garden last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySaO3ll3cA Here's a complete solo performance of "Didn't He Ramble" filmed live in concert June 17 in New York's Madison Square Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlwg7dsD-Kg
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