From the album "This Old Town" (May 2013)

St. Croix Hills (R. Pedersen)

From the 2011 album Handguns 
©2011 Big Blue Zoo/Greensky Bluegrass

Handguns - Handguns(2011)

Pure Jerry: Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, San Rafael, California, February 28, 1986

When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live)

Railroad Earth - Adding My Voice

2014/08/02 Morrison, CO

Long Way To Go

01.  Tell Me Something Good  (02/08/19 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse)

It Won't Be Long

'Til You Come By Here

Labor of Love

Santa Fe

Brand New Good Old Days

Red Fox Run

Charlie Parr 'Last of the Better Days Ahead', out July 30th, 2021 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings on CD and digital and November TBD 2021 on 2xLP.

Charlie Parr’s newest album, Last of the Better Days Ahead, is a collection of powerful new songs about how one looks back on a life lived, as well as forward on what’s still to come. Its spare production foregrounds Parr’s poetic lyricism, his expressive, gritty voice ringing clear over deft acoustic guitar playing that references folk and blues motifs in Parr’s own exploratory, idiosyncratic style. When it comes to what it all means, Parr says it best: 

“Last of the Better Days Ahead is a way for me to refer to the times I’m living in. I’m getting on in years, experiencing a shift in perspective that was once described by my mom as ‘a time when we turn from gazing into the future to gazing back at the past, as if we’re adrift in the current, slowly turning around.’ Some songs came from meditations on the fact that the portion of our brain devoted to memory is also the portion responsible for imagination, and what that entails for the collected experiences that we refer to as our lives. Other songs are cultivated primarily from the imagination, but also contain memories of what may be a real landscape, or at least one inspired by vivid dreaming. The album represents one full rotation of the boat in which we are adrift—looking ahead for a last look at the better days to come, then being turned around to see the leading edge of the past as it fades into the foggy dreamscape of our real and imagined histories.” – Charlie Parr

Charlie Parr - 817 Oakland Avenue

A Tribute to Bill Monroe

Old Dangerfield

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Charlie Parr - 817 Oakland Avenue

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