Search - Charlie Parr :: When The Devil Goes Blind

Where do you start when you want to sing the praises of a man who would, in a just world, already be a household name? I suppose that you could talk about how Charlie's spellbinding finger picking and slide techniques on guitar and banjo place him front & center among the world's foremost string-benders. Or you could try to explain how Charlie's blood & guts songs are infused with an originality, integrity and heart rarely (if ever) displayed by contemporaries operating in or around pre-war blues traditions. Further, you might extrapolate on how Parr's performing career (which began in 1988) has taken him from Twin Cities bars and coffeehouses - studying resident greats like Dave Ray and Spider John Koerner - to the year 2010, where he's enjoying an ever-growing fan base comprised of folk-blues purists, American Primitive beard-scratchers, jam band-lovin' neo-hippies, and, well, just about every type of person imaginable. When The Devil Goes Blind is Charlie's first nationally distributed record.