Disc 1
1. High Wide & Handsome
2. Took My Gal Out Walkin'
3. I'm The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World
4. My Mother & My Sweetheart
5. Bill Mason's Bride
6. Goodbye Booze
7. Old Ballyhoo
8. Little Waterloo
9. I'm Glad I'm Married
10. Mother's Last Farewell Kiss
11. Acres Of Diamonds
12. Way Up In NYC
13. If I Lose
14. The Great Reaping Day
15. Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight
Disc 2
1. The Man In The Moon
2. The Deal
3. No Knees
4. Moving Day
5. Old And Only In The Way
6. Ragtime Annie
7. Sweet Sunny South
8. The Letter That Never Came
9. Awful Hungry Hash House
10. Rowena
11. Didn't He Ramble
12. Ramblin' Blues
13. Charlie's Last Song
14. Beautiful
15. High Wide & Handsome (Reprise)
Loudon Wainwright III, together with producer Dick Connette, has created one of the most ambitious projects of his career with the 2 CD set High Wide & Handsome - a grand gathering of songs, both old and original, revisiting the life, times and recorded legacy of legendary singer and banjo picker Charlie Poole (1892-1931). The music ranges from old-timey to dixieland, from parlor songs to acapella gospel, a compendium of the strains that have created and continue to create American popular music. Greil Marcus wrote in his notes for the project, "Poole might have been waiting all these years for someone to talk back to him so completely in his own language; Wainwright might have been waiting since he first heard Charlie Poole to get up the nerve to do it." Guests on the album include Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Sloan Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, the Roches, and Chris Thile.
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