Smoke Signals lead to Mossley
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VISITORS WHO FOLLOWED the smoke signals to Mossley club found some surprise guests when they met on Tuesday 24 February. Charlie Rainbow Wolf, her husband Chris, brother George Tincher and friend Carol Bailey made the trip from Fleetwood in search of some ‘down home pickin’. “My big brother was coming for a two week vacation all the way from Illinois,” Charlie explained. “We hadn’t played music with each other for over sixteen years so I contacted NWBN to find out where we could find some music while he was here” and Mossley proved to be the answer. Charlie and her brother were born and raised in mid-western America, but of different mothers. George has played alongside Bill Monroe, in Nashville, and more recently watched Alison Krauss go from being a college musician to a county star. Today he plays a Martin D76, but not as often as he should in Charlie’s estimation. Charlie is also a musician, but prefers Appalachian ballads to rousing bluegrass. She has recently made a return to the folk club scene in the Fylde after a break of nearly fourteen years, and also plays a Martin. She writes a lot of her own material and is hoping to bring the stories and songs of life in rural America to her audiences. Charlie and George have a fierce pride in their father, George senior, born in 1909. His father, of Dakota Sioux and German descent and also called George, coal mined from sunup and farmed until sundown. His wife, Amanda, was half Cherokee, and it is from these roots Charlie was given her name in 1995. Charlie will readily admit that it is from her heritage that she finds inspiration for her music, even if some of it is romanticised! And the smoke signals? It was only Bev Williams, puffing away in the corner....
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