Charlie Parr - Criminals and Sinners (Missplaced Music, 2004)

Charlie Parr est originaire de Duluth, comme Low. D'ailleurs Alan Sparhawk de Low a filé un coup de main à la production de cet album. Mais la musique n'a rien à voir avec Low. Sur son site, Charlie Parr se présente: one man, one guitar, one foot in the grave. C'est du folk traditionnel, très influencé par les racines du blues. En dehors de l'air du temps, ça aurait pu être enregistré il y a 80 ans. C'est brut, dépouillé, sans artifice technologique, et ça va à l'essentiel!

Charlie Parr
Criminals and Sinners
CD Misplaced Music MM104 (UK, 2004)

01. Asa Jones' Blues
02. Lowdown
03. Song for Loren B.
04. Henry Young's Body
05. I Wonder How Long 'til I Can Change my Clothes
06. Eli Green
07. Troubled 'bout my Mother
08. Annie Melton
09. Going up the Countrys

Ce qu'en dit le label :
Charlie Parr is from the same Duluth, MN music scene that spawned the likes of Low, Blacked Eyed Snakes, If Thousands and Haley Bonar. His music delves deep into the back roads of American folk music. Even though there's hints of Robert Johnson, Nick Drake and Will Oldham in his playing it's the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music that is the biggest inspiration of this lonely folk music. Recorded live to 2 track and previously issued in 2002 by Shaky Ray Records of Duluth who describe it on their website as their finest moment. This is music at its most honest, ragged and stripped bare of any frills however the timeless songwriting shines through.

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