Last of the better days ahead / Charlie Parr.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Parr, Charlie, composer, audio producer, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music)--2021-2030.

Blues (Music).

Folk music.

Genre:

Blues (Music)

Folk music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Folkways, [2021]

System Details:

digital

optical

stereo

1.4 m/s

audio file

CD audio

Summary:

"Charlie Parr's newest album, Last of the Better Days Ahead, is a collection of powerful new songs about how one looks back on a life lived, as well as forward on what's still to come. It's spare production foregrounds Parr's poetic lyricism, his expressive, gritty voice ringing clear over deft acoustic guitar playing that references folk and blues motifs in Parr's own exploratory, idiosyncratic style"--Container.

Contents:

Last of the better days ahead

Blues for Whitefish Lake, 1975

Walking back from Willmar

Anaconda

Everyday opus

On fading away

817 Oakland Avenue

On listening to Robert Johnson

Bed of wasps

Rain

Decoration day.

Participant:

Performed by Charlie Parr, vocals, 12-string, resonator, baritone resonator guitars ; with additional musicians.

Credits:

Produced by Charlie Parr, Liz Draper and Erik Koskinen.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Recorded 2021 January 13 Real Phonic Studios, Cleveland, MN.

"Decoration Day" recorded 2020 November 11 Pachyderm Studios.

All songs written by Charlie Parr.

Compact disc.

Performance notes by Abraham Smith, with song lyrics and additional track annotations by Charlie Parr, printed on container insert.

OCLC:

1252220977

Publisher Number:

093074024423

40244 Smithsonian Folkways

SFW40244 Smithsonian Folkways

SFW CD 40244 Smithsonian Folkways