“Charlie Parr is one of the greatest musicians and human beings I know. So many country-blues artists are crippled with retro-ism and purism, but he has brought wonder and excitement to this music. Even Charlie’s foot coming down on the floor boards screams with more soul and life than most anything - past or future” Alan Sparhawk (Low)

Duluth, Minnesota’s king of the rollicking blues stomp CHARLIE PARR returns to Australia in January 2010, showcasing songs from his seventh album, Roustabout.

Having delighted and astonished audiences across the country on tour with Paul Kelly in April 2009, Charlie now heads off on his first headline East Coast tour. With a fantastic gift for an onstage yarn, and sparks flying off his prized National resonator, 12-string guitar and banjo as he delivers rousing, freewheeling performances from his own extensive song catalogue and the country blues canon, Charlie is on his way to becoming Australia’s new favourite bluesman.

Roustabout is a field recording in true monophonic sound recorded in a variety of locations including living rooms, garages, bar room basements, and empty storefronts throughout his home state. Drawing influence from the rural music of the 1920s – rags, blues, and folk – Parr’s songs tackle a litany of human miseries and occasional joys from a sharply modern vantage: aging, death, loneliness, god, regret and love.

Don’t miss out on the renowned Charlie Parr live show of scratched up, low-down thumping American folk music when he returns this January.