King Earl, by Charlie Parr

King Earl

by Charlie Parr

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1.	Worried Blues 04:02	buy track
2.	Possessed By The Devil 05:28	buy track
3.	Union Tramp 03:06	buy track
4.	Reverend's Eviction Blues 04:28	buy track
5.	Miner's Lament 04:05	buy track
6.	V8 Ford Blues part 2 06:07	buy track
7.	King Earl 04:24	buy track
8.	Ode to a New Dealer 04:17	buy track
9.	Mule Rider 02:28	buy track
10.	1917 04:02	buy track
11.	Jefferson Street Express 04:19	buy track
12.	West Bank 10 String Rag 02:52	buy track
13.	Worried Blues 03:39	buy track

about

"I’d been playing the songs that made up King Earl for a while, they were culled from a failure of a short piece of fiction of the same name and the rest of the songs mined from that little book were used later for the Rooster album. So I’d been playing them for some time live and they were as familiar and realized as they could be at that point in time. The session was a show with no audience, we recorded live to the microphones and tape machine, barely letting the room go quiet before we started the next song. Every single step of the process (mixing, mastering, artwork, what have you) took longer than the actual recording session. I haven’t strayed too far from that model to this day, preferring to capture a moment rather than create one and let the listener use this captive, this shadow of an evening, to create their own moment."

King Earl is currently the featured download on the website; check out this page for a bonus download and more: www.charlieparr.com/download.html

Reviews
"There's splashes of instrumental brilliance the equal of Leo Kottke's 6 & 12 string, but really it's Parr's corruscating attack of a voice, heading down that dusty gravel road which raises the stakes here. As serious as your life, and twice as exciting - what a discovery." - Boomkat

"In an age of commercialism and celebrity and the turn of a quick buck, the soul saving melodies of Parr are like a breath of fresh air, timeless and majestic, princely and magnificent. If anything King Earl is a more rootsy and dusty affair than its predecessor, these square jawed gems have been blended from the finest ingredients and left to mature in oak wood casks until fit to burst." - Losing Today

credits

released March 4, 2004

Guitar [National Steel Guitar, 12-string], banjo, vocals – Charlie Parr
Washboard, percussion – Mikkel Beckmen
Theremin – Christian McShane
Engineer – Jake Larson
Mixed and mastered by Tom Herbers
Album design and photography by Christian McShane

All songs by Charlie Parr except tracks 1, 5, & 13 trad. arr. Parr

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Charlie Parr Duluth, Minnesota

"Parr is scruffy and uncomfortable looking, with a longish beard and balding head. He dropped out of high school in the 1980s, but he looks older than that. He's pathologically deadpan in his delivery of in between song banter. The crowd really enjoyed his depressingly hilarious dead cat story. He never smiles." - Lucy Steigerwald

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shows

Apr 19

Valley Bar

Phoenix, AZ
Apr 20

Yucca North

Flagstaff, AZ
Apr 21

Fusion 708

Albuquerque, NM
May 3

First Avenue

Minneapolis, MN
May 19

xBk live

Des Moines, IA
May 21

Old Rock House

St Louis, MO
May 25

recordBar

Kansas City, MO
Jun 29

Big Top Chautauqua

Bayfield, WI
Jul 19

Stateside Amphitheatre, Jay Peak Ski Resort

Jay, VT
Sep 8

Effenaar

Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sep 10

The Tin At The Coal Vaults

Coventry, UK
Sep 11

Glad Café

Glasgow, UK
Sep 12

The Cluny 2

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Sep 14

Gullivers

Manchester, UK
Sep 15

Future Yard

Birkenhead, UK
Sep 16

The Greystones

Sheffield, UK
Sep 20

Moth Club

London, UK
Sep 21

St Mary's Church

Dorking, UK
Sep 22

Lewes Con Club

Lewes, UK
Sep 25

Supersonic Records

Paris, France
Oct 2

Bogen F

Zürich, Switzerland
Oct 8

Schauspielhaus Bergneustadt

Gummersbach, Germany
Oct 9

Privatclub

Berlin, Germany
Oct 11

Beta

Copenhagen, Denmark

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