June 18, 2015: Charlie Parr's new
album, Stumpjumper,
was not only the first album the folk blues artist has
recorded outside of his native Minnesota but his first to
feature a full band. The album was recorded in rural North Carolina
with producer Phil Cook (Megafaun, Hiss Golden Messenger). Cook put
together a band of local players, setting up in an old
outbuilding on the “Down Yonder Farm” near Hillsborough, NC to record
the album. Now, Cook and filmmaker Adam Heathcott have put together
a short film trailer of the sessions, using
additional footage shot around Duluth by Maxwell McGruder.
Phil Cook, a longtime friend and fan of Parr's, provides
the narration and captures the feel of the North-South musical
collaboration.
"Phil is
such an important person to me, so the fact that he's taken the time to
do that film is a big deal to me - I feel pretty lucky to be working
with him," says Parr. "That part of Hillsborough, NC really
reminded me of home and that's what made the record what it is. The
first hour we played together there it felt like we'd been playing
together for years, the guys were just so comfortable and accomodating.
They all give off that 'everything is OK' vibe, and you can hear it in
the music."
While a
legend in some circles, Northwoods songwriter/guitarist Charlie Parr
may be a new name to some music fans. Long a part of the vibrant
Duluth, MN, music scene (Alan Sparhawk and Low, Trampled by Turtles), Stumpjumper is
Charlie's first album on Grammy-winning Minnesota indie label Red
House. Parr has announced extensive tour dates through 2015; scroll
down for a complete listing.
Press:
"Parr is a picker -- whether on National resonator
guitars, dobro, or banjo -- who cut his musical teeth on Charley
Patton, Woody Guthrie, and Lightnin' Hopkins, and his actual teeth on
the canned meat packed at the Hormel plant in his hometown. A
product of both elements, Parr's songs ring out with a working
class ethos and a welcome home energy."
- The Bluegrass Situation
"Stumpjumper is a deep blues album first and
foremost, but it’s Charlie Parr’s master craftsmanship at fingerpicking
rhythms, and his folk-leaning songwriting that has liberated him from
specific categorization."
- Saving Country Music
"The native Minnesotan’s style can best be
described as new music from an older time – sometimes dark and
desolate, sometimes raucous and danceable."
- Dan Forte
(Vintage Guitar)
“Parr may have been born during the Nixon era, but you can taste the
grit of the Dust Bowl in his music.”
- Dusted
“Among the contenders in the every burgeoning indie folk, or new folk,
genre, there are a lot of pretenders and acts trying desperately to “look
and play the part”, but five seconds in front of Charlie Parr and you
know you’re dealing with the real thing.”
- Jim Beckman (KEXP)
“John Fahey described the music he collected on American Primitive Vol.
1 as ‘made under the influence of enthusiasm.’ The enthusiasm he spoke
of was a kind of possession, whether Christian or diabolical he
couldn’t be sure; a mode of ecstatic communication that intervened in
the delivery of sacred and secular messages alike. Charlie Parr’s
recordings, which make splendid companions to Fahey’s anthology, are
similarly enthusiastic.”
- Popmatters
Tour Dates:
WE 6/24 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
TH 6/25 Charlotte, NC - US National Whitewater
Center
FR 6/26 Wilmington, DE - World Cafe Live
SA 6/27 Windham, VT - The Frendly Gathering
TU 6/30 Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
WE 7/1 Nashville, IN - BigWoods Brewing
TH 7/2 Cincinnati, OH - Washington Park
FR 7/3 Berwyn, IL - Fitzgerald's-Berwin
SA 7/4 Stoughton, WI - Stoughton Opera
House
TU 7/07 Cleveland, MA - Beachland Tavern
TH 7/9 Cambridge, MA - Atwoods Tavern
FR 7/10 New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall 2
SA 7/11 Greenfield, MA - Green River Music Fest
SU 7/12 Saratoga Springs, NY - Caffe Lena
FR 7/17 Remer, MN - Double Barrel Blues Fest
SA 7/18 Stillwater, MN - Stillwater Log Jam
SA 7/18 Minneapolis, MN - Patrick’s Cabaret
TH 7/30 Dubuque, IA - The Lift
FR 7/31 Red Wind, MN - Falconer Vineyard
SA 8/1 Somerset, WI - Somerset Amphitheater
SU 8/2 Marquette, MI - Ore Dock Brewing
FR 8/7 Shell Lake, WI - The Potters Shed
SA 8/8 Appleton, WI - Mile of Music
SU 8/9 Appleton, WI - Mile of Music
FR 8/21 Durango, CO - Durango Blues Train
SA 8/22 Durango, CO - Durango Blues Train
SU 8/23 Lyons, CO - Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
TH 8/27 St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
FR 8/28 St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
SA 8/29 Friendship, IN - Whispering Beard Folk
Festival
WE 9/2 Minneapolis, MN - Midwest Music
Showcase @ Target Field
SA 9/5 Duluth, MN - Red Herring Lounge
SA 9/12 Ames, IA - DG's Taphouse
SU 9/27 Johnsville, CA - Lost Sierra Hoedown
WE 10/14 St Cloud, MN - Pioneer Place on Fifth Theatre
SA 10/24 Austin, MN - Paramount Theatre
SA 12/19 Lake City, MN - Oak Center General Store
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