You Ain’t Talkin’ to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music

Compilation by Charlie Poole

Released 17 May 2005

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Shootin’ Creek
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:26
  • 2
    Baltimore Fire
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:13
  • 3
    Leaving Home
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:11
  • 4
    There’ll Come a Time
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:31
  • 5
    White House Blues
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:31
  • 6
    The Highwayman
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:20
  • 7
    Hungry Hash House
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:25
  • 8
    The Letter That Never Came
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:51
  • 9
    Take a Drink on Me
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:17
  • 10
    Husband and Wife Were Angry One Night
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:52
  • 11
    Ramblin’ Blues
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:07
  • 12
    Took My Gal A-Walkin’
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:48
  • 13
    Old and Only in the Way
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:29
  • 14
    Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:53
  • 15
    Bill Mason
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:01
  • 16
    A Kiss Waltz
    The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:10
  • 17
    Flop Eared Mule
    The Highlanders
    3:00
  • 18
    A Trip to New York, Part 1
    Allegheny Highlanders
    3:06
  • 19
    Sweet Sixteen
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:54
  • 20
    Write a Letter to My Mother
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:03
  • 21
    If the River Was Whiskey
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:10
  • 22
    Mother’s Last Farewell Kiss
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:05
  • 23
    Milwaukee Blues
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:18
  • 24
    Where the Whippoorwill Is Whispering Good-Night
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:09
  • CD 2
  • 1
    The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:21
  • 2
    Sunny Tennessee
    Floyd County Ramblers
    3:18
  • 3
    Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee
    Dock Walsh
    2:40
  • 4
    Moving Day
    Arthur Collins
    3:14
  • 5
    It’s Movin' Day
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:28
  • 6
    Home Sweet, Home
    Frank Jenkins
    2:34
  • 7
    I’m the Man That Rode the Mule ’round the World
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:04
  • 8
    Man That Rode the Mule Around the World
    Uncle Dave Macon & Sid Harkreader
    2:56
  • 9
    Lynchburg Town
    The Highlanders
    3:02
  • 10
    Going Down to Lynchburg Town / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
    Blue Ridge Highballers
    3:10
  • 11
    Some One
    Branch and Coleman
    3:05
  • 12
    Monkey on a String
    Cal Stewart
    2:33
  • 13
    Monkey on a String
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:09
  • 14
    Can I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:13
  • 15
    May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister
    The Red Fox Chasers
    2:54
  • 16
    Married Life Blues
    Byron Parker and his Mountaineers
    2:41
  • 17
    The Infanta March
    Fred Van Eps
    4:22
  • 18
    Sunset March
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:41
  • 19
    I’ll Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
    Buster Carter & Preston Young
    2:59
  • 20
    Goodbye Eliza Jane
    Peerless Quartet
    1:39
  • 21
    Good-Bye Sweet Liza Jane
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:06
  • 22
    Good-Bye Booze
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:17
  • 23
    Goodbye Booze
    Gid Tanner & Fate Norris
    2:51
  • 24
    You Ain’t Talking to Me
    Eddie Morton
    2:56
  • 25
    You Ain’t Talkin’ to Me
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:57
  • CD 3
  • 1
    If I Lose, I Don’t Care
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:09
  • 2
    The Battleship of Maine
    Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers
    3:18
  • 3
    Budded Rose
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:04
  • 4
    Standing by a Window
    Clay Everheart & The North Carolina Cooper Boys
    3:17
  • 5
    Uncle Dave’s Beloved Solo
    Uncle Dave Macon
    3:06
  • 6
    Come Take a Trip in My Airship
    Billy Murray
    2:11
  • 7
    I Once Loved a Sailor
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:08
  • 8
    Dixie Medley
    Sam Moore and Carl Freed
    2:43
  • 9
    My Wife, She Has Gone and Left Me
    Kelly Harrell
    3:18
  • 10
    My Wife Went Away and Left Me
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:56
  • 11
    Baby Rose
    Billy Murray
    4:14
  • 12
    Just Keep Waiting Till the Good Time Comes
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:27
  • 13
    Shuffle Feet, Shuffle
    Henry Whitter, Fisher Hendley and Marshall Small
    2:40
  • 14
    Coon From Tennessee
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:13
  • 15
    Coon From Tennessee
    Georgia Crackers
    3:06
  • 16
    On the Banks of the Kaney
    Big Chief Henry’s Indian String Band
    3:08
  • 17
    Dixie Medley
    Fred Van Eps
    4:10
  • 18
    Southern Medley
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:06
  • 19
    The Man That Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man
    Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
    3:14
  • 20
    Sweet Sunny South
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:55
  • 21
    Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South
    Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters
    2:46
  • 22
    Oh! Didn’t He Ramble
    Arthur Francis Collins
    2:11
  • 23
    He Rambled
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    3:00

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