
Charlie Parr
Charlie Parr will be performing at the Hermit Music Festival on Friday, July 26th, 2013, and I got a chance to interview him. We talked about how he learned to play guitar, what draws him to gospel music, and his approach to songwriting.
“I wanted to write stories,” Parr told me. “I wanted to write like Raymond Carver, stories that were startling and real.” He says most of his songs start with foggy ideas, and over the years he has learned to pay attention to those ideas. “I kinda know when I should pay attention.” Once the idea hits he starts fitting it into song form – verses, choruses, bridges. “But then I think about a song like ‘Pretty Polly’ which has no chorus. Dock Boggs isn’t gonna give anybody a break.”
Read my interview with Charlie Parr on the Hermit Music Festival website.
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Here’s Charlie Parr singing “Badger” from Barnswallow.
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