JUBILEE

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.

TRACK LISTING/LISTEN (click on red title for mp3)

Jubilee
Coffee's Gone Cold
Just Like Today
99 Year Blues
Riding Lawnmower Blues
33 & 67
V8 Ford Blues
Bonneville
Twenty-Nine
You Can't Win
Stingray
Jesus On The Mainline
Last Freight Out Of Asheville

BACKSLIDER (live album)

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).

TRACK LISTING/LISTEN (click on red title for mp3)

1922
Asa Jones' Blues
Birdman
Mahtowa Stomp
Eli Green
Jesus At The Kenmore
Westbound Rattler
Annie Melton
Prodigal Son (trad.)
Lowdown
3-Stage Pacemaker Blues
Migrant Boxcar Train
Jail Hooch Blues
Henry's Young Body
John Henry (trad.)

Get it here, at The Brewhouse, at your local record shop, or at Charlie’s shows!

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ROOSTER - Back By Popular Demand!

Rooster 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.

REVIEWS
Flak Magazine
Splendid Zine
The Daily Page
MORE REVIEWS

LISTEN (click on red title for mp3)

Sampson and Delilah
Bethlehem
Gone
One Eyed Jack
1928
Public Record Rag
Samuel Grady
Rooster
Dead Cat on The Line
Ellen Mayhem
Cheap Wine
Wild Bill Jones

Get it here, ask at your local record shop, or at Charlie’s shows!

KING EARL

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.

ARTICLES & REVIEWS
03/12/04
02/28/05
03/01/05 (french)
No Wax
KindaMuzik
Subjectivisten

LISTEN (click on red title for mp3)

Worried Blues
Posessed By The Devil
Union Tramp
Reverend's Eviction Blues
Miner's Lament
V8 Ford Blues part 2
King Earl
Ode To A New Dealer
Mule Rider
1917
Jefferson Street Express
West Bank 10 Street Rag

1922

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.

TRACK LISTING

Westbound Rattler
True Religion
Migrant Boxcar Train
Yo-Yo Blues
1922 Blues
Country 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
Roses While I'm Leaving
Hogkill Blues
Jesus at the Kenmore
Old Jim Canan's
Farther Along

IRON COUNTRY - COMPILATION CD

Spinout Records (www.spinoutrecords.com) invited folks from the Cuyuna, Mesabi and Gogebic Iron Range areas to help record a new compilation called IRON COUNTRY. Over the past year, pickers and grinners from the region congregated at Sacred Heart Studio (www.sacredheartstudio.net). Located in a de-sanctified cathedral in the iron-shipping hub of Duluth, inspiration was drawn from the studio's view of ships arriving and departing the oar docks that line the harbor on Lake Superior.

DULUTH DOES DYLAN ll - COMPILATION CD

Bob Dylan's body of art (carved out over the last 45 years) has been a solid touchstone for us to mark the days and the decades. It's with pride
that we keep his music in the air on radio, in "live" studio perform-
ances, and at concerts, clubs and bars. And as Bob Dylan turns 65
years (forever) young, it's with hometown pride that this record came
together: With artists from Duluth paying tribute to our favorite
native son and one of America's greatest living artists."
- John Ziegler (Program Director KUMD-FM)

MISPLACED MUSIC - COMPILATION CD

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

Reviews
Few compilations come with such care and passion as this.
(Record Collector)

KEEP RECORDINGS - COMPILATION CD

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.

Reviews
The real majesty of this collection comes in the sequencing of eight minutes of escalating, brooding, menacing, Charlie Parr (Doc Boggs 'Pretty Polly')....
(Americana UK)