The music of Minnesotan bluesman, Charlie Parr has been on our playlists ever since a trip to New Zealand and Australia, where his music became a perfect soundtrack to the roadtrip.  So it was a surreal pleasure to have him perform a few of his songs and share some stories of bears, moose and passport control in our home town of Bristol. 

We’d been sizing up our friend George’s fireplace for a shoot for a while, so jumped at the chance to sneak in and film, while he was off, fighting a Sunday hangover in the pub.

This September, Parr released Cheap Wine, a compilation of past songs and a great introduction to his hard luck stories of  gamblers, drinkers, union boys and dustbowl wonderers.