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by Brian Beatty

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Jonathan Waldo The listener is immediately put at ease with the lead off track of this album of poetry and expertly crafted folk improvisations by Charlie Parr. Preconceptions are not useful to us. Beatty tells the timeless stories of the hobo, intertwined with explicitly detailed imagery seemingly pulled from dark dreams of the past. Favorite track: 47834.
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Poetry by Brian Beatty
Music by Charlie Parr

Brian Beatty's hobo is an eternal drifter. Across "the yellow map unfolded in his mind," with Charlie Parr's skilled string work deepening the silence and distance through which the hobo wanders, listeners gladly wander with him. Beatty's poems are rugged, mysterious and wise, and he performs them beautifully, his voice a dusty landscape of its own. You'll want him to sit and stay awhile, maybe take a few pulls from his bottle, before the hobo doubles back and leaves the way he came, disappearing into the "darker dark."

— Ryan Vine, Distant Engines and To Keep Him Hidden


Brian Beatty is the author of five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows (Ravenna Press, 2021), Borrowed Trouble, Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press, 2019 and 2018), Brazil,Indiana (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Coyotes I Couldn't See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Beatty grew up in Indiana and lived in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri prior to landing in Minnesota in 1999. His poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, as well as in public art projects and on public radio.

Poems recorded here were first published, sometimes in different form, in The American Journal of Poetry, The Appalachian Journal, The Bark, CutBank, Dark Mountain (England), Dressing Room Poetry Journal, Elephant Journal, Every Day Poems, The Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Great Walks (Australia), Green Hills Literary Lantern, Hummingbird, Indiana Voices Journal, Kentucky Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth (Ireland), the museum of americana, Poetry City, Quail Bell, Two Hawks Quarterly and Urthona (New Zealand).

An easily confused and very shy individual, Charlie Parr has been traveling around singing his songs ever since leaving Austin, Minnesota, in the 1980s in search of Spider John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar one Sunday night. The experience changed his life, made him more or less unemployable, and brings us to now: 13 recordings, 250 shows a year or more, 200,000 miles on a well broke-in Kia, and a nasty fear of heights.

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released January 1, 2021

All music for this project was spontaneously composed in the studio.

Poetry recording by Mike Stalcar at Audio Ruckus

Music recording and final mixing by Tony Williamette at Minnehaha Recording Company

Engineer Assistant at Minnehaha Recording Company: Christian Montgomery

Mastering by Jonathan Waldo

Album art by Burke Thomas and Will Pike

Brian and Charlie photo by Heather M. Swanson

Special thanks to Justin Hamm and Grant Clauser

Released by Corrector Records

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