Jazz Articles about Peter Parcek

About Peter Parcek

Album Review

Peter Parcek: Most Of The Time

Read "Most Of The Time" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 14, 2026

The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart and the soul. In fact, as demonstrated on Most Of The Time, this native of Connecticut--who moved to England in the Sixties ...

Blues Deluxe

Fall 2020

by Doug Collette
December 29, 2020

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Heathcote Hill “the stories we are told" 311 Music 2020 Roots-music artists too often sacrifice personal expression for genre authenticity, but that's not the case with Heathcote Hill. True to the title of this album, the band weaves true-life ...

Album Review

Peter Parcek: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven

Read "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
December 9, 2017

Ably aided and abetted as is Peter Parcek on Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, he never runs the risk of his own contributions being overshadowed by the esteemed likes of his guests including North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson, Muscle Shoals veteran Spooner Oldham and long-time Willie Nelson band member Micky Raphael. he guitarist/vocalist/songwriter acquits himself so stylishly during the course of this album, those high-profile names fully integrate themselves within this project so that the music remains the focus. ...