Charlie Parr isn’t trying to reinvent American folk music, he’s too busy living inside it. With his 12-string guitar, resonator, and dusty voice, he’s spent over two decades on the road, often playing more than 200 shows a year.
Raised on the sounds of Lead Belly, Mance Lipscomb and Depression-era storytelling, Parr’s music is honest, unvarnished, and rooted in both tradition and place, from the snowy streets of Duluth to the gravel roads of southern Minnesota.
His latest album Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) offers tales of music, nature and community, carried by raw fingerpicking and a voice shaped by time. A folk poet of quiet power.
