Jun 5, 2021
An easily confused and very shy individual, Charlie
Parr has been traveling around singing his songs ever
since leaving Austin Minnesota in the 1980's in search of Spider
John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar
one Sunday night. The experience changed his life, made him more or
less unemployable, and brings us to now: 13 recordings, 250 shows a
year or more, 200,000 miles on a well broke in Kia, and a nasty
fear of heights. Resonator fueled folk songs from Duluth
Minnesota.
“Spider” John Koerner. Dave
“Snaker” Ray. Tony “Little
Sun” Glover. The names are legendary, and the
seminal country-blues trio they formed in the early Sixties
influenced a musical era with its passionate treatments of rare
blues stylings. A self-described fun-loving trio of misfits, they
turned audiences on their heads with foot-stomping performances
throughout the U.S., and their series
of Elektra recordings, commencing with Blues, Rags
and Hollers, are considered the cornerstone of the Sixties
folk/blues revival.