Watchhouse

Wondrous Love

Blue Blue Blue

It Hurts Me Too

Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino - It Hurts Me Too

In Pain

Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold

Georgia Blue

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Truth (feat. Adia Victoria)

Give It Time

Give It Time (Alternative Version)

All Roads

A Far Cry from Dead

Pancho & Lefty

Soul Insight

Boone

Trout Steak Revival
"The Light We Bring"
To be released 1/31/2020
Recorded at Mighty Fine Studios in Denver, Colorado
Self-Produced by Trout Steak Revival
Recorded and Mixed by Kyle Zender
Mastered by Gavin Lurssen

02 Arrows In The Dark

Good Bones

Toaster

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

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