charlie parr

On this weeks Simple Folk Radio we’ll be featuring the first Simple Folk Radio we aired from March 2012 which features a great session from Charlie Parr who is touring the UK & Europe in May & June 2013.

A great mix, the second in a series of occasional memos to Folk Radio UK from Folk Police Towers which ends up in the USA after a quick side-trip to France.

As many of you will already know from our announcement last Friday we have teamed up with Simple Folk Radio whose weekly show will feature on Folk Radio UK. The first show goes out this Saturday coming (March 24th) at 5pm. The highlight of the show will be a live session by Charlie Parr. “I can’t think of a more perfect way to get this show on the road than …

Folk Radio UK joins forces with Simple Folk Radio: a welcome addtion to our broadcast that will include live sessions and more! Live Sessions include Charlie Parr, Emma Gatrill, Great Lake Swimmers, Rozi Plain and David Thomas Broughton

To celebrate the release of Charlie Parr’s compilation titled ‘Cheap Wine’ the Minnesota based bluesman will be touring Europe during November.

It’s friday again and we have a nice selection of artists for you from the better known to the lesser known, including: Delta Spirit, Sparrow and the Workshop, Squinch Owl and Charlie Parr!

Charlie Parr holds an air of mystery about him. The story goes that one spring day in 1979, a young Charlie Parr made his way down to East Side Lake in Austin, Minnesota carrying a Johnson 9.9 outboard motor and half of a gallon of gas. His pockets were stuffed with stolen cans of Blatz. The motor did him no good at the lake since he didn’t have a boat, …