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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.

Charlie Parr: Last of the Better Days Ahead

by Doug Collette
August 7, 2021

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 ...