Charlie Parr - Roustabout

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A fantastic guitarist

As great as your favourite albums are, that just-stumbled-upon treasure is perhaps the sweetest thing music can offer up. Here's one that shines brighter with every listen.

From Minnesota, Parr's travels through folk and blues yield great, lived-in tunes and compelling characters and fire you up to find everything else he's put his name to. He is a fantastic guitarist and, as some of his more ambient stuff here ('Midnight Has Come & Gone', 'Adrift in Lake Superior at Sunrise') shows, he can take his music wherever he wants to and still sound like the real deal.

Not a moment wasted and not one second where you're not wondering about hearing these songs played live.

Harry Guerin

Tracklisting: Don't Send Your Child to War - Far Cry from Fargo - Walk Around My Bedside - Warmin' by the Devil's Fire - Midnight Has Come & Gone - Adrift in Lake Superior at Sunrise - Cropduster - Last Payday at Coal Creek - The B&J Ain't Nothin' But a Hole in the Ground - Farmer - God Moves on the Water