DESCRIPTION:
Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician, born in Austin, Minnesota, United States. He started his music career in Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt. He plays a National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back banjo, and a 12-string guitar in the Piedmont blues style. He is married (to Emily Parr, who occasionally adds back vocals to Charlie's music) with two children.
As of May 2008, the song "1922" has been featured in an Australian and New Zealand Vodafone television advertisement. As a consequence Parr's album, 1922, was re-released in Australia on the Level 2 record label in Melbourne. In 2009, Parr toured Australia with Paul Kelly.Several of Parr's songs were featured in the Australian drama film "Red Hill" released in 2010, including a full rendition of "Just Like Today" in the closing credits of the film. His music was also featured in the background of a commercial for Gerber Gear entitled "Hello Trouble". It features the song "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down".
Parr played at the 2011 Pickathon Music Festival in Oregon, and the 2012 Willamina's Wildwood MusicFest & Campout

Albums

Criminals & Sinners
Criminals & Sinners (2002; Two CD versions: Shaky Ray Records SRR027, and a UK re-release in 2004 on Misplaced Music MM104, both versions are out of print. 1000 copies of MM104 pressed. LP version released September 2011.)
1922 (2002; self released. Multiple CD versions, all out of print: 2002 original jewel case version; 2008 version in a handmade, letterpress sleeve with new artwork on cover and CD, 2009 version on Level Two Music label (Australia) with different cover art borrowed from 'Roustabout', as well as bonus tracks from a few of Parr's other albums.)
King Earl (2004; Misplaced Music MM107, CD out of print; 1000 copies pressed. A 10" double lp re-release was pressed on Chaperone Records in 2012 (CRL-004), which came with a version of the CD).
Rooster (2005; Several CD versions: Little Judges LJ001 (jewel case), Eclectone Records ECL012 (digipak). Jewel case re-released in 2008. Out of print as of April 2011)
Backslider (2006; self released CD, live album, some tracks with Trampled by Turtles, out of print)
Jubilee (2007; CD, Little Judges)
Roustabout (2008; on CD and LP. Misplaced Music MM113. A limited February 2009 vinyl release in UK (500 copies); out of print).
When the Devil Goes Blind (2010; CD and LP, Nero's Neptune Records 016, out of print, also on vinyl)
Keep your Hands on the Plow (2011; House of Mercy Recordings MR026. CD and LP. With Emily Parr, Four Mile Portage, and Alan Sparhawk + Mimi Parker of Low.)
Barnswallow (2013; CD and LP)