Charlie Poole Anthologies

[Jon Hall]

Can any of you recommend an anthology of recordings by Charlie Poole?
Elderly has the JSP box set in stock. Is that a good one or is there one that is better?

[SincereCorgi]

As far as I know, "You Ain't Talkin' To Me" on Sony is the leader of the pack in Poole anthologies, having a beautiful booklet with art by Crumb and all his most famous recordings on three discs, as well as recordings of folks who influenced Poole. The JSP set might be a better deal, though.

[Jim Garber]

Correction: The SONY box is CP's recordings compared side by side with recordings olf the same songs by contemporaries. The JSP set is all CP recordings prob more enclyclopedic. Some discussion about both these sets here with playlists etc.

BTW one person suggested that the re-mastering on the SONY set was excellent.

[Jon Hall]

I purchased volumes 1, 2 & 3 of the County anthologies from Amazon. I'm satisfied with the song selection and the quality of the digital re-mastering.

[stevejay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyADGjml7tw

What I realized from this is Charlie Pooles banjo just has that old sound, it wasn't just the result of the old recordings. Wat I mean is the old recordings aren't necessarily distorting the tone to a great degree if this makes sense. It sure survived a long time.

[Greg Stec]

I've got Sony's CP anthology. I love it.
More than my 2 cents.