All albums below are $15, which INCLUDES ALL SHIPPING AND HANDLING, EVEN FOR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS. All are also available at Charlie's performances, or simply click on the "add to cart" button to safely & securely pay via paypal or credit card. For regular mail orders, please send a note specifiying which album(s) you'd like to purchase along with a check or money order to:
Charlie Parr
PO Box 492
Duluth, MN 55801-0492

To listen, click on red underlined song titles.
For liner notes, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

ROUSTABOUT
Released: 11.08

Roustabout is available again - cd's can be ordered here or bought at shows - vinyl is available but only at shows & select indie shops.

ROOSTER
Released:04.05

KING EARL
Released:03.04

1922
(DEBUT RECORDING)
Original Release:2002
Re-release I: 2008
Re-release II: 2009

1922 is sold out, finally. Again. It's still alive in the shops of Australia, or can be purchased on i-tunes. It will probably not be available here again if we can help it.

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Westbound Rattler
Migrant Boxcar Train
1922 Blues
Louis Collins
Mahtowa Stomp
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
To a Scrapyard Bus Stop
Wreck of the Bernard K
Funeral Road Blues
Hogkill Blues
Jesus at the Kenmore

...also includes 3 bonus tracks from Rooster, Jubilee, and Backslider:
Wild Bill Jones (from Rooster)
Bonneville (from Jubilee)
1922 (from Backslider - live w/TBT)

Roustabout (2008)
Release date: Nov 20, 2008. Roustabout is Charlie's seventh full-length CD release. It's a field recording in true monophonic sound recorded over a month's time in a variety of locations including living rooms, garages, barroom basements, and empty storefronts. Tom Herbers engineered and mastered the recording using a Nagra reel-to-reel. Special guests include Emily Parr (vocals); Dave Hundreiser (harmonica); Mikkel Beckmen (washboard and a variety of other percussive junk); Dave Simonette (vocals & guitar); and Ryan Young (fiddle).

Jubilee (2007)
Release date: June 2, 2007. Recorded by Jakob Larson over two nights in April, 2007, in a friend's garage. Mixed & mastered by Tom Herbers at Third Ear Studios, Minneapolis, MN. Special Guests: Dave Simonett (guitar & vocals), Mikkel Beckmen (washboard & stuff), Dave Hundrieser (harmonica), Emily Lanik-Parr (vocals), and Christian McShane (cello). Cover & back photo by Aaron Molina. Inside photo by Benjamin Kaiser.

Backslider (2006)
You knew it was bound to happen, backslider has sold out. It was a limited edition, too, and there's not going to be anymore. Now you don't have one and it's too, too late. Or is it? This title is available DIGITALLY on the INTERNET. Somewhere. I-Tunes, I believe. Anyway, thanks!
Released September, 2006. Recorded live by Jakob Larson over three nights in July, 2006 at The Brewhouse in Duluth, MN. Mixed & mastered by Tom Herbers at Third Ear Studios, Minneapolis, MN. Special Guests: Trampled By Turtles (Dave Simonett, Eric Berry, Tim Saxhaug, Dave Carrol), Mikkel Beckmen (washboard & junk), Dave Frankenfeld (drums, gascan), Molly Maher (slide guitar), Dave Hundrieser (harmonica) and Christian McShane (cello).

Rooster (2005)
...is Charlie’s 4th independent release (2005). The album contains 10 new original tunes, plus 2 traditional folk songs. It was recorded by Tom Herbers in a Duluth warehouse space using vintage recording equipment in a monophonic format.
Rooster features appearances by Mikkel Beckmen on percussion, Molly Maher on slide guitar, ‘Banjo’ Dave Carrol (Trampled By Turtles) on banjo, Karl Anderson on upright bass, and Christian McShane (if thousands) on cello, guitar and the devil’s own ukelin. Lyrically, the songs deal with the usual litany of human miseries and occasional joys: aging, death, loneliness, god, regret and even love. The music draws influence from the rural music of the 20’s: rags, blues, and folk tunes. Parr plays banjo, baritone 12-string, National steel-bodied guitar, and a wood-body resonator guitar built by fellow Duluthians Jakob Larson and his father Daniel.

King Earl (2004)
Released March 4, 2004. This one was recorded in Fatty Pant’s rehearsal space in Duluth, MN, January, ’04 by Jakob Larson. Tom Herbers mixed and mastered it. There are 13 tunes, featuring arrangements of 2 traditional tunes, and many new originals. It’s got Charlie's (at the time) new 12-string on it, and of course the National and a banjo tune. Mikkel Beckmen returns to stomp on a board and play the washboard, and Christian McShane (of if thousands) plays the theremin on 2 tracks. Charlie thinks this is the best thing he's ever done. Get it here, the Electric Fetus in Duluth or Minneapolis, or anywhere you see Charlie.

1922 (2002)
1922 is back! This album sold out a quite while ago, but it's back by popular demand with a brand new handmade letterpress sleeve. Get 'em while they're hot. After this, that's it. Also available on your favorite mp3 service (iTunes, etc.) if you're of that ilk.

Misplaced Pets (sold out)
An out-of-print compilation CD to benefit two Leeds animal charities - Whitehall Dog Rescue and Leeds Animal Rescue.
Unreleased tracks from: Homeland, Aarktika, James Green (Big Eyes), Fairweather Friend, Portal, Havergal, Martin Finke, Lucky Luke, Vibracathedral Orchestra,Burd Early, Charlie Parr, Hood, Empress, The Unpleasants, Seaworthy, Remote Viewer, Pedro, Alasdair Roberts, Bill Riccini and Adrian Crowley,Sufjan Stevens and a previously released track by Al Duvall
Few compilations come with such care and passion as this. (Record Collector)

Keep Recordings (sold out)
Charlie was asked to provide a song for a compliation album by this one-of-a-kind label. The song chosen was an arrangement of Doc Boggs "Pretty Polly". Recorded by Jake Larson, accompanied by Christian McShane on cello. Click on image at left for info and ordering information.
The real majesty of this collection comes in the sequencing of eight minutes of escalating, brooding, menacing, Charlie Parr on Doc Boggs 'Pretty Polly'....(Americana UK)