Talk:Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers

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I'm not sure that Uncle Dave Macon learnt much from Poole. Macon learnt his skills in the 1880s, before Poole was born. Also, there are larger compilations of Poole's work than "You Ain't Talkin' To Me" --scruss 6 July 2005 19:21 (UTC)

Two pages

Should there really be two seperate pages, this one and Charlie Poole? BobFromBrockley (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

In the german Wikipedia, we only have one page for Charlie Poole with a redirect "Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers" to the Poole article. But I think it's aceptable to create two pages. It's possible to seperate the content: the Charlie-Poole-article could be concentrate on Poole's early life, his private life, his alcoholism, and his late years until his death in 1931. At last we could write a section about his influence in popular music, country & bluegrass. The North-Carolina-Rammblers-article could cover the history of Poole and his band from their very beginnings in the late 1910's, their private playings in the sawmills, their journey to new York for getting a contract, maybe a full discography, a sessiongraphy of their complete recordings, the personal changes the band had and the relation to each other. Why not? The yodeling cowboy (talk) 21:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I believe there should only be one Charlie Poole page. It's not impossible to fit both Poole's personal life and the band's career into one article if you separate the different matters under several plain headings. Now it's very confusing for a reader to understand that there are actually two different pages containing virtually the same content. --Popiloll (talk) 20:42, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Above I said it's possible, but I think it's better to have one page to concentrate the content in one article. The yodeling cowboy (talk) 17:24, 17 December 2008 (UTC)