Charlie Parr performs "Moonshiner" live at the 2011 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions in Portland, Oregon. For more awesome live performances from Charlie Parr and other great bands, visit www.liveandbrea... pickathon.com
still come back to this all day long charlie. im pretty sure he developed some serious arthritis in his hand from gigging so much but still plays this classic far better than anyone ive seen. true contemporary folk master.
My five year old son just came to me. ' Are you watching Big Foot?' No son, that's Charlie Parr. Sorry Charlie! (Ps. Love all you've done for Americana music. Cheers)
Todd Ojala That’s really not Blues, that’s Hill Billy music. I don’t mean that in any perjorative sense, just different classifications of music. The Blues have their roots in African American music from the Mississippi Delta around the turn of the 20th century. Mountain, or Hill Billy music has its roots in the Irish and Scotish settlers who settled in the deep reaches of the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains in the early to mid 19th Century. Some of these communities were so isolated that you could still hear the celtic brogue in their speech before the Second World War. One of the best things FD Roosevelt did was use musicians in the WPA to go way back up in the Mountains and collect and record the old folk songs from those communities. What a tragedy it would be if this music had been lost to time!
Damn, how I admire, envy, and am in awe of someone who can play guitar like this. Please don't hate me for saying this, but I really like Cat Power's version of this song more. Not that she plays guitar, but I have to say the emotional feeling she puts into it is something else. Thumbs up to Charlie, never would have come across this if Spotify hadn't turned me onto him by the song "Cheap Wine".
He’s suffered recently from focal dystonia which means he’s had to adapt to playing with only thumb and first finger. Maybe this performance is from before he had the problem.
I'm the 13,666th view \m/ Man, Charlie has got so much soul in his music it's riveting! His original 'Hog Kill Blues' is another one of my favorites. Keep up the excellent work brother!
Now I now what it's supposed to sound like.....copied this out of a book in a library cuz the lyrics seemed cool....when my my son was 3 he was flipping through all these copies and said "Dad play this" .....I said I couldn't cuz I didn't know how it goes and I can't read notes, but he kept on begging and was almost in tears. So I did like Kant and just imagined how the moonshiner in those hills may have sung this....might post that sometime.
Pops up on the feed again and again so keep hitting play again and again. Excellent cover better than the original by miles (sorry Bob). Anyone worked out a tab for this version?
It's actually interesting because it's most closely the bob dylan arrangement that he's playing, but uses lyrics usually attributed to much earlier versions!
What does he say on the last verse, something like "Come all you moonshiners and stand on the hill' or something? Does anyone know the full verse by any chance?? thanks in advance!
Zev Posner it's an old traditional song. From the Appalachian mountains i believe. Lyrics of traditional songs were changed around and often included lyrics from other songs also.
Nathan Deen My feeble attempt at being facetious. It was really a complement to his playing......and a re-quote of "I think" an early recording executive who said it upon listening to one of the first demo's of the great Robert Johnson.
I'm pretty sure it's standard, then tuned down one step. It's the way a lot of people tune their 12 strings because it relieves some neck tension and you can get standard tuning by putting a capo on the second fret. I hope this helps! Not sure how it would sound on a six string because you wouldn't have the higher paired strings to brings the sound up a bit.
I swear that there are some arschlochs who live on the Death Star as it travels through the Black Holes in the Dark Web that just cruise YT to rage with thumbs down on anything that others like. I could just spit!
