★★★★★
Summary: Rambling blues from one of the best men doing it. 1 of 2 thought this review was well written Most professional musicians will spend months upon months slaving away on their album, fine-tuning every last detail to the point of complete exhaustion. That is, of course, unless you're Charlie Parr - the hirsute Minnesota bluesman lay down his latest, When the Devil Goes Blind, in roughly four hours. And one of those hours, so says Parr, was spent getting lunch...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-02-21
★★★★★
Summary: Rambling blues from one of the best men doing it. 1 of 2 thought this review was well written Most professional musicians will spend months upon months slaving away on their album, fine-tuning every last detail to the point of complete exhaustion. That is, of course, unless you're Charlie Parr - the hirsute Minnesota bluesman lay down his latest, When the Devil Goes Blind, in roughly four hours. And one of those hours, so says Parr, was spent getting lunch...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
The times you grow up in can shape you, but so does the household where you were raised. Charlie Parr's dad was born in 1922, worked in a Hormel plant until his body gave out, organized for the union, and played Mance Lipscomb, Elizabeth Cotton, and Dock Boggs records when the kids wanted to hear that new-fangled stuff by The Beatles and Minutemen. Parr may have been born during the Nixon era, but you can taste the grit of the Dust Bowl in his music...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-12-13
★★★★★
The legendary Charlie Parr's spellbinding finger picking and slide techniques on guitar and banjo place him front & center among the world's foremost string-benders. His 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...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-10-01
★★★★★
Editor's Note: For the last nine years, Splendid's reviews have been edited pretty aggressively -- for grammar, punctuation, spelling, usage, accuracy, coherence and thoroughness of argument, and even adherence to "house" style. There are two reasons for this. First of all, I've always believed that for online magazines to succeed, they must offer the highest quality content possible...
- www.splendidezine.com
2008-07-30
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