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Charlie Parr - "Imagine if Bob Dylan had made Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks.""

From Austin, Minnesota, and initially exposed to music through the record collections of his dad and sister. Eventually, his mum got him a cheap guitar and stereo.

“I wanted to play like Mance Lipscomb’s “Texas Songster” and “Blues in My Bottle” by Lightnin’ Hopkins, but there was nobody teaching guitar around town who was going to teach me to play like that, so I just went about trying to figure out how to play it on my own.”

He spent hundreds of hours alone in his room teaching himself to play.

Charlie’s new record, “Little Sun”, represents all the music he’s absorbed. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback studio in Portland, “Little Sun” is a shambling thing of beauty, rollicking one moment (“Portland Avenue,” “Boombox,” “Ten Watt,” “Sloth”) and out-of-body ecstatic the next (“Bearhead Lake,” “Pale Fire”). The sound is warm, and it has a huge beating heart and flights of pure mysticism.

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