Charlie Parr plays The Old Guitar

Charlie Parr plays a Bukka White tune called "Fixin' To Die" on The Old Guitar.
We were sitting with Charlie inside Café Nine in New Haven; alone except for the bartender prepping for the evening ahead.
It was fairly early in the afternoon, and Café Nine just has a couple windows, so there were a few sunlit spots in the room. Charlie pulled up a chair to one of these lighter areas right in front of the bar’s old cigarette machine, produced a metal slide from his pocket and strummed a couple chords on The Old Guitar while we got the cameras in place. We started recording, and he tore into a downright haunting rendition of bluesman Bukka White’s “Fixin’ to Die”.
For those five minutes, Charlie took us back to the 1930’s, sitting on a sharecropper’s front porch deep in cotton country. Or maybe it was a living room in the dead of Winter in his native Minnesota, I really couldn’t tell. But Charlie’s music took us somewhere else.

[@bluesnites]

Many thanks Charlie. This one's a fav but needed an extra CP fix today. Peace.

[@ericjessen4608]

This is probably the only footage you’ll ever see of Charlie playing a 6 string acoustic. He only plays 6 strings on his resonators and all his acoustics are 12 string. Super mellow sound. Folks might not realize what a gem this is

[@jacksondemarre8057]

eric jessen There’s other footage. He played a show with Spider John Koerner a few years ago and he was playing a Sovereign 6 string acoustic guitar. There’s footage from that show floating around on UA-cam.

[@dpaulku]

Charlie always takes you where you want to be.

[@whiskeymike8010]

Luv It!

[@ericmercury3187]

Charlie takes you places. He has a degree in philosophy, so he is a storytelling philosopher that uses wonderful music to make his point.

[@deeplyconfused1416]

This is great!

[@fetermcblues]

this is great

[@suzannedixon8277]

A gem.

[@FrancCinelliTV]

just perfect

[@deborahkauffman09]

love it

[@danwilhite]

Incredible!

[@scaredypicker]

Showin everyone how it's done

[@bluesman787]

Are you playing in open E tuning?

[@darlalawley5794]

bluesman787 open g

[@7Chikchan]

Currently unemployed and broke. I know at least a couple hundred of these views are from me lol

[@danielmorden2603]

What kind of guitar is he playing?

[@alancandy6080]

Looks like an American Kay parlour guitar from 50s or 60s.

[@RealSimplistic1]

1960's Kay K5160

[@bikerfry]

I bought an old Kay. $60. I call her Ol smoky. Only guitar I named. This video gives such inspiration.

[@larryyouguessame6078]

Is he pickin that with a pocket knife?

[@alancandy6080]

Looks like chrome slide