2Sep2008
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Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues - Charlie Poole
Charlie Poole and his brother-in-law, fiddler Posey Rorer - whom he had met in West Virginia in 1917 and whose sister he ended up marrying - formed a trio with guitarists Norman Woodlieff and Roy Harvey in 1925 called the North Carolina Ramblers. The group auditioned in New York for Columbia Records. After landing a contract, they recorded the hugely successful “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues” on July 27, 1925. This song sold over 102,000 copies at a time when there were estimated to be only 600,000 phonographs in Southern United States, according to Poole’s biographer Kinney Rorrer. The band was paid $75 for the session.
