event Nero's Neptune Showcase
Spider John Koerner and Charlie Parr and Milo Fine and Paul Metzger and Zak Sally
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courtesy Cedar Cultural Center
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Fri May 14
8 pm
Nero's Neptune Showcase at Cedar Cultural Center
In his overalls, scruffy beard, and feed cap, Charlie Parr looks like a farmer in town to pick up a part for repairing a grain silo or tractor. Then he’ll climb up on stage, cradle his 12-string or National steel guitar, and lay down some old-school country blues with passion, fire, and an innate feel for the folk music that grew out of the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia years ago. And you’ll still wonder if he’s a farmer. He’s just that down-to-earth. Parr recently released Roustabout, a spirited collection of songs about his favorite subject matter: drinking, murder, the hardscrabble struggle of being poor, and the mighty brought low (on a stellar interpretation of Blind Willie Johnson’s Titanic lament, “God Moves On The Water”).
Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
In his overalls, scruffy beard, and feed cap, Charlie Parr looks like a farmer in town to pick up a part for repairing a grain silo or tractor. Then he’ll climb up on stage, cradle his 12-string or National steel guitar, and lay down some old-school country blues with passion, fire, and an innate feel for the folk music that grew out of the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia years ago. And you’ll still wonder if he’s a farmer. He’s just that down-to-earth. Parr recently released Roustabout, a spirited collection of songs about his favorite subject matter: drinking, murder, the hardscrabble struggle of being poor, and the mighty brought low (on a stellar interpretation of Blind Willie Johnson’s Titanic lament, “God Moves On The Water”).
Updated 05/03/2010
