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Cliff Hands & band + Dusty Bible
Presented by: Tin Angel| 0 | COVENTRY: Taylor John's House |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 31st May, 2013 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Friday 31st May - please note change of address
Charlie Parr @ TAYLOR JOHN'S HOUSE Chapelfields
Tickets £10 adv/ £12 door
Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota's Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century, Parr's heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don't strive for authenticity: They are authentic.
It's the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up without a TV but with his dad's recordings of America's musical founding fathers, including Charley Patton and Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. With his long scraggly hair, father-time beard, thrift-store workingman's flannel and jeans, and emphatic, throaty voice, Parr looks and sounds like he would have fit right into Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music."
