Charlie Parr

Minnesota root base musician Charlie Parr is focused on the blues and folk customs of a youthful era. Raised over the music of Charley Patton, Lead Tummy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Woody Guthrie, Parr’s blue training collar upbringing in the town of Austin, Minnesota (house of Hormel Foods and SPAM) and its own rural environment are shown in his existence and musical designs. He started his profession in Duluth within the traditional western shoreline of Lake First-class, where he documented his 2002 debut Bad guys & Sinners. On the following decade, he’d continue to make use of Duluth as his house foundation, touring regionally and nationally, documenting his exclusive albums in uncommon areas (warehouses, garages, living spaces, storefronts), often utilizing classic or lo-fi ways to catch his mixture of traditional blues, folk, and spirituals together with his personal powerful tracks. In 2008, his music “1922 Blues,” from his second recording 1922, was found in a Vodafone industrial in Australia and New Zealand and became a shock success. He offers since enjoyed several successful trips and produces in Australia, where this year 2010 three of his tracks were found in the Australian traditional western film Crimson Hill. With throaty tone of voice, National steel acoustic guitar, and banjo, he continues to be in comparison to Dave Vehicle Ronk, Dock Boggs, and also Tom Waits. Generally a single performer, his 2011 launch of all-traditional music also featured many guests, like his wife Emily Parr on vocals and people from the indie group Low. With over twelve information to his credit, both self-released and on little national and worldwide labels, Parr authorized with Grammy-winning folk label Crimson House Information (Greg Dark brown, John Gorka, Loudon Wainwright III) release a 2015’s Stumpjumper. Made by Megafaun’s Phil Make in NEW YORK, Stumpjumper marks the very first time Parr has documented a single record with a complete backing music group. He quickly implemented up with an EP entitled I Ain’t Deceased Yet, which Crimson Home released in the springtime of 2016.