Charlie Parr with Joe & Vicki Price (patio)
West Bank Deep Blues Festival
The Deep Blues Festival comes to the West Bank! This evening, the price (FREE!) is twice as right, with Iowan blues legends Joe and Vicki Price, and Duluth's master country bluesman Charlie Parr. Joe and Vicki Price's latest album Rain or Shine won the Judges' choice for best blues CD in the 2009 Independent Music Awards. Joe and Vicki's music is flavored more to the juke joint end of the blues: a bit rough and tons of fun.
Charlie Parr's songs are inhabited by wandering gamblers, union workers, criminals and sinners, and tell stories that occupy the dark places where regret and remorse part company.
Charlie Parr's self-taught mix of slide, finger-picking and quasi-frailing guitar technique, together with a voice that's low on drama and high on impact, offers a modern take on timeless conditions.
A self-confessed failure (and modest to a fault), Minnesota’s Charlie Parr is nonetheless stubborn enough not to quit. Parr released his first recording, Criminals & Sinners, to mild local acclaim in 2001. (A special limited edition vinyl version of this...
Joe and Vicki Price catapult energetic country blues. This is finger style guitar in the Elmore James/Muddy Waters tradition, a bit rough and tons of fun. Their music has been described as a righteous, joyful, foot-stomping jubilee. Joe has been performing...
