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Flop Eared Mule

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Tune Title
Artist
Year
1929
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Label
Catalog Number
3171
Matrix Number
2911-2
Track Order
2001.01
  • Flop Eared Mule

    The Charlie Poole big band Columbia didn't want you to hear. By 1929, Poole was traveling with a five-piece band including twin fiddlers Austin and Smith and a piano played by Roy Harvey's sister. Frank Walker at Columbia was only interested in the trio he'd always recorded, and refused to listen to anything else. Not to be thwarted, Poole went to the tiny independent Paramount company and cut eight sides as "Fred Newman". This is what you'd have heard if you ran into the North Carolina Ramblers in a coal town in West Virginia 72 years ago.

    The Highlanders: Charlie Poole, banjo; Lonnie Austin, Odell Smith, fiddles; Roy Harvey, guitar; Lucy Terry, piano.

    New York NY 5/9/29 Paramount 3171

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