“These folks here, in this record, have no idea what’s wrong. Or how to help. They are sick with the longing to make everything better. And they can’t. Tiny things are important. This house could be anywhere. These things could happen to anyone.” With this reflection, Charlie Parr introduces the characters of Rooming House, a conceptual folk opera that chronicles the lives of Upper Midwesterners through his quietly raucous, deeply rooted, and empathetic blues. These are songs

Five stories. Well, they barely count as stories, actually, they’re more like sad anecdotes told to you at the end of an impossibly long...

Charlie's collaboration with Mule Resophonic Guitars has come to fruition with the launch of the new Parr Mule, a wooden body tri-cone...

Little Sun, the eighteenth album from prolific Minnesota-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Charlie Parr, will be released March 22...

Charlie recently released his first work of fiction through southwestern Wisconsin-based ramshackle press. Readers are treated to a deep...