Charlie Parr
Muskie Days
Nevis, MN
July 18th, 2026
This is a "Midwest Sounds" recording (MWS561)
Lineage: LyxPro SDPC-2 mics > Zoom H4Essential (32-Bit Float) + Soundboard > Tascam DR-60D
-Feel free to remaster, share freely anywhere else, or convert to MP3. Please don't sell it or profit from it in any way. If you enjoy this show, support the artist by buying/streaming their music, attending a show or buying merch.
-Thanks as always to Charlie for allowing me to record.
More pictures here: Link
1. Intro
2. Everybody's Goin' for the Money (“Spider” John Koerner cover)
3. 817 Oakland Avenue
4. Last of the Better Days Ahead
5. ?
6. Hello Mrs. Moore
7. Hard Times Blues (Lane Hardin cover)
8. (what's so funny about) Universal Healthcare?
9. Falcon
10. Danville Girl (Trad.)
11. On Stealing a Sailboat
12. Jubilee
13. Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) (Robert Johnson cover)
14. Ain't Dead Yet
15. St. James Infirmary Blues (Trad.)
16. Running, Jumping, Standing Still (“Spider” John Koerner cover)
17. Dog
18. Boombox
19. 1922 Blues
20. Down South Blues
21. Rocky Raccoon (The Beatles cover)
22. Old Dog Blue (Jim Jackson cover)
23. There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down (Brother Claude Ely cover)
24. Outro
Archive.org / Google Drive
In the music of Charlie Parr, there is a sincere conviction and earnest drive to create. The Minnesota-born guitarist, songwriter, and interpreter of traditional music has released 19 albums over two decades and has been known to perform up to 275 shows a year. Parr is a folk troubadour in the truest sense: taking to the road between shows, writing and rewriting songs as he plays, fueled by a belief that music is eternal and cannot be claimed or adequately explained. The bluesman poet pulls closely from the sights and sounds around him, his lyrical craftsmanship built by his influences. The sounds from his working-class upbringing—including Folkways legends such as Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie—imbue Parr’s music with stylistic echoes of blues and folk icons of decades past.
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Tapers notes: Recording 11 of 13 from Muskie Days 2026. Great set as always from Charlie, who has been a staple of Muskie Days for many years now.
"Got a mind to ramble, got a mind to roam
I'm travelin' light and I'm slow coming home"

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