Last night as I was driving home I heard an NPR story about a new album by Loudon Wainwright III called High Wide & Handsome: A Tribute to Charlie Poole. Poole was among those early-twentieth-century musicians from Piedmont North Carolina mill villages whose hillbilly music and tunes from the textile mills helped shape what we now call country music. Wainwright discussed his 2-disc tribute album on Fresh Air back in August. Here's a video about the making of the Charlie Poole project: We've already got an appreciation for this banjo legend here at UNC Press....