Charlie Parr - Moonshiner (Live from Pickathon 2011)

Charlie Parr performs "Moonshiner" live at the 2011 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions in Portland, Oregon.
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[@vintageroze5557]

What is wrong with the 15 folks who gave this a “thumbs down”? This is real mountain music.

[@JeffVoss]

This is one of the greatest things ever.

[@soradispaul]

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.

[@LaylaZoeMusic]

Charlie rocks, so glad I had the chance to hear and meet him in the Netherlands a few years ago.

[@benallen7793]

One of the best to do it brother…. Thank you so much Charlie for sharing your passions with us. Means the world to this man! 🙏🏻✌🏻💤

[@Icneumone7]

What a hopeful tune. Thanks Charlie

[@noname-ir9fs]

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)

[@dannelson891]

So much soul poured into this, love you Charlie. Your music makes hard times a little easier.

[@kevinmyers2183]

Words fail me, just beautiful.

[@richalva415]

Solid. Great justice to an iconic folk standard.

[@7Chikchan]

this is magical

[@toddojala8867]

Our favorite "local" (Minnesota) blues man!

[@vintageroze5557]

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!

[@kentmcnicholas5732]

Hopefully young people will find Charlie and discover his music.

[@tecumsehtm]

Got my teenage boy into him, via the Gaslight Anthem, into Springsteen, into Nebraska, into Charlie. A long road but made it in the end.

[@lucaarcangeli3455]

Charlie....simply the best

[@bousss]

great great great version!!

[@torvilasulvstle362]

Yeah, way different than early Dylan, but just as honest.

[@micky44music]

praise be Charlie, Love ur music man keep up the fantabulous works man : ) truly champion music

[@Mr_Barungz]

He should pay his rent with such unbelievable talent, greatings from the Netherlands

[@jamesbalfe7844]

Amazing one of my favourite songs to play on guitar... awesome charlie... thumbs up from Ireland! Happy Paddys day all

[@2506INF]

If only "Moonshiner" would appear on the next album!

[@gauravoberoi962]

no words. hands down.

[@tomclissold]

Simply awesome man. One of my favourite versions of one of my favourite songs. Much love man

[@jeremywark5528]

Salute to you Charlie Parr.

[@mariejohnson732]

Great cover! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!

[@scorn4th]

Love the sound of a Guild 12 string! Great cover!

[@CowboyMicke]

Just awesome!

[@stevewilliamson9995]

Love some Charlie!

[@stevegerrish6720]

love it thanks so much for this

[@aajs669]

Pure Class !

[@BoognishWhoo]

Such an awesome song. Uncle Tupelo will always be my favorite, but Charlie does it justice for sure.

[@rubbabubba6489]

Uncle Tupelo got me here. Both are great but I like Charle's version slightly more. Its just so raw

[@middle-agedmacdonald2965]

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".

[@cromlech6167]

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!

[@mentalcompassno1]

man I've been trying to learn this. this is a great song

[@craigrichardson5744]

This guy is wicked, bad, the bomb, lit, righteously excellent, what have you.

[@TheRuinaz]

wow i love this artist

[@Seven8998]

one of the better of our time, nice to have that when the world is about to burn

[@farmishlife6988]

And here we are years later and 4 years ago seems like "the good old days"

[@scaredypicker]

Beautiful song. It's also the first time I've seen Charlie use more than his thumb and first finger to play in a live performance.

[@geofflb6537]

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.

[@samhenry250]

Awesome cover

[@edwardrichard2561]

My favorite version

[@fastheartmartvideos]

Wow! This is really good :)

[@Plafintarr]

There's something about this. Can't explain it.

[@erabearm2565]

This is haunting 🥲

[@annebastian6506]

Not "my music" - still, I loved it. Very much so even! COMPLIMENT, Charlie! Great playin', great singin', great writin' !

[@brianstearskingnothing]

Wow that's some amazing picking

[@trevor_corey8037]

Pickin with the best of em.

[@DennisAnthonis]

Nice!

[@prestonbelcourt5796]

That's fkn solid

[@j.l8531]

Very nice sir!

[@rp8133]

man, that's a fine piece of music craftsmanship - this man looks that unimpressive, but he's a titan of the blues

[@deborahkauffman09]

I am very impressed also

[@torvilasulvstle362]

Listen also to the version by Lost Dog Street Band. (And by Redbird!)

[@walkerhayden590]

The BEST

[@richardprice8081]

extraordinary

[@pauldonchick8622]

artwork

[@zackdavis9654]

I wish I could fingerpick that well on a 6 string! Always wanted a guild and by God I'm getting one

[@MaureenKilgore]

Cuts right through me.

[@smithry3]

This rulez

[@RichieHmusic]

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.

[@TheHillcityhobo]

Exactly......I live in Tennessee. I promise you.....we do it how we feel it. Not like how people tell us how it sounds.

[@WirSindZuGeil]

sounds interesting, please upload someday :)

[@57t2]

That guitar is kind of like Charlie... a little road-worn, lot's of character, and full of beauty which can't be contained.

[@ericmercury3187]

Very Americana and very well done.

[@johndavies5023]

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?

[@Jeffro3780]

Whoa...

[@posereddieful]

God bless all the pretty women . . . see you soon, Charlie - Dec 8th at City Winery Philly!

[@josephgrady2129]

12 strings, plays with two fingers, Charlie parr is genius

[@danielbuchta7748]

is this an original or a cover? either way i lover this song!!

[@toddojala8867]

It's an old anonymous folk standard.

[@danielbuchta7748]

***** Thanks!

[@dwwallach]

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!

[@RemoteAbductionArm]

I don't think I've seen anyone good fingerplay a 12-string before. Obviously, I have much to learn.

[@ethanfreel]

Wow

[@Fendernocaster109]

This guy was singing this way before the pack damn

[@beaulester8797]

I'm assuming the 16 dislikes were some highly deranged individuals

[@TheVeek192]

People who didn't like it. Who cares? Why bother insulting them? You can't like what you like without the backing of 16 strangers?

[@freddiemercerful]

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!

[@Browny84]

John Mercer stand all in a row, I think.

[@jordanmcneish8062]

Does anyone know what tuning he’s using? String by string. Tell me like I’m an 8 year old. I can figure the rest out.

[@recalcitrantrecidivist5927]

$5/gallon. I'm in! 😂

[@zachbutler9484]

I see a lot of people playing this song, who wrote it originally?

[@jodijenkins7609]

Zach Butler no one knows. it's a mystery! 😊

[@zevpass]

Is this the same one as the song by Dylon? sounds the same but he changed up the lyrics a bunch ...

[@OSUBucks12345]

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.

[@seanbrummel6405]

What year is that guitar???

[@Mjollnir50]

Sean Brummel Hard to say. I'd guess anywhere from 1967 to 1986, most likely late seventies. Only the serial number knows.

[@tuinhoofd1923]

The video that originally made me want to get a 12 string

[@ryancollins486]

All you downvoters can meet me at the flagpole at noon.

[@skynyrdnemoy2418]

Dave Van Ronk!

[@DaveHarriesLlewellyn]

anyone know the tuning?

[@petercrout4248]

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.

[@pilibeen]

This backdrop is undeserving

[@brianstearskingnothing]

Iv only herd Benjamin Todd's version now I know

[@rubbersole79]

Who's playin' the other guitar?

[@REDACTEDx69]

Theres only one guitar. Its a 12 string

[@rubbersole79]

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.

[@Browny84]

rubbersole79 it was Keith Richards.

[@lesliefox9800]

love to hear the bob dylan version

[@MariaSantos-gb2ph]

This guy plays guittar so good go slow ever Fran by eu Piracicaba S.P by J. dos Santos

[@lindatheobald7789]

what do those kids say---------sweet

[@j.l8531]

No clue on him.?. But hear some southern Missouri boy in him. I'm probably way off. Enjoyed it anyway.

[@ericrusch8258]

Duluth MN

[@oconnor1951]

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!

[@TheVeek192]

Who cares? Doesn't stop me liking what I like.

[@mauriceortiz1557]

Mountain bluegrass v_v :-)

[@af-lt5he]

Y is lol Wayne famous and ol Charlie isnt

[@jamesrandy3115]

no one appreciate this music anymore

[@XordyGames]

85.440 views say the oposite

[@ericmercury3187]

Yes, there are still some that dont fold to the corporate pop machine.

[@ExperiencingNature]

Many do.

[@cheethama]

Needs to be more clear in vocals, like Bob!!!