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Charlie Parr

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Little Sun

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Portland Avenue; Little Sun; Bear Head Lake; Boombox; Pale Fire; Ten Watt; Stray; Sloth.

Album

Last of the Better Days Ahead

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Last of the Better Days Ahead; Blues for Whitefish Lake, 1975; Walking Back from Willmar; Anaconda; Everyday Opus; On Fading Away; 817 Oakland Avenue; On Listening to Robert Johnson; Bed of Wasps; Rain; Decoration Day.

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Article: Album Review

Charlie Parr: Last of the Better Days Ahead

Read "Last of the Better Days Ahead" reviewed by Doug Collette


Country-blues in its most vintage form, Last of the Better Days Ahead is not appreciably different from Charlie Parr's last couple albums, Dog (Red House Records, 2017) and Charlie Parr (Red House Records, 2019). As on those records, his economical playing meshes with the deft, spare accompaniment, almost surreptitiously evoking people, places and moods with such ...

Album

Charlie Parr

Label: Red House
Released: 2019
Track listing: Love Is An Unraveling Bird's Nest; To a Scrapyard Bus Stop; On Stealing a Sailboat; Asa Jones Blues; Running Jumping Standing Still; Mag Wheels; Annie; Heavy; Twenty-Five Forty-One; Jubilee; Cheap Wine.

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Article: Live Review

Charlie Parr At Higher Ground

Read "Charlie Parr At Higher Ground" reviewed by Doug Collette


Charlie Parr Higher Ground Showcase Lounge South Burlington, VT October 3, 2019 Assuming the stage alone and without any introduction, beginning almost surreptitiously with “CC Rider," Charlie Parr quieted the noisy crowd in this venue's smaller room within roughly sixty seconds. He faced similar challenges throughout his roughly ninety-minutes in ...

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Article: Album Review

Charlie Parr: Charlie Parr

Read "Charlie Parr" reviewed by Doug Collette


Charlie Parr's latest album deserves its eponymous designation. After surviving and rehabbing in the wake of an injury so serious it threatened his musical career, the hardy bluesman decided to record some tracks previously-issued material alongside some newly-written songs. The resulting collection of eleven pieces simultaneously completes one circle and begins another. Jeff Mitchell's ...

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Article: Live Review

Charlie Parr At Higher Ground

Read "Charlie Parr At Higher Ground" reviewed by Doug Collette


Charlie Parr Higher Ground, Showcase Lounge South Burlington, VT July 27, 2018 Charlie Parr was downright dazzling in Higher Ground's Showcase Lounge Friday July 27. And if that seems hyperbole given his somewhat subdued concert in the same room last autumn, it probably shouldn't: with some eight more months of touring ...


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