{"product_id":"charlie-parr-last-of-the-better-days-ahead","title":"Charlie Parr - Last Of The Better Days Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003eCat. no: SFW40244\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 093074024423\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 30 Jul 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Parr’s newest album, ‘Last of the Better Days Ahead’, is a collection of powerful new songs about how one looks back on a life lived, as well as forward on what’s still to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts spare production foregrounds Parr’s poetic lyricism, his expressive, gritty voice ringing clear over deft acoustic guitar playing that references folk and blues motifs in Parr’s own exploratory, idiosyncratic style. When it comes to what it all means, Parr says it best: “’Last of the Better Days Ahead’ is a way for me to refer to the times I’m living in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m getting on in years, experiencing a shift in perspective that was once described by my mom as ‘a time when we turn from gazing into the future to gazing back at the past, as if we’re adrift in the current, slowly turning around.’ Some songs came from meditations on the fact that the portion of our brain devoted to memory is also the portion responsible for imagination, and what that entails for the collected experiences that we refer to as our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther songs are cultivated primarily from the imagination, but also contain memories of what may be a real landscape, or at least one inspired by vivid dreaming. The album represents one full rotation of the boat in which we are adrift looking ahead for a last look at the better days to come, then being turned around to see the leading edge of the past as it fades into the foggy dreamscape of our real and imagined histories.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks: Last of the Better Days Ahead \/ Blues for Whitefish Lake, 1975 \/ Walking Back from Willmar \/ Anaconda \/ Everyday Opus \/ On Fading Away \/ 817 Oakland Avenue \/ On Listening to Robert Johnson \/ Bed of Wasps \/ Rain \/ Decoration Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40384008355996,"sku":"SFW40244","price":14.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/SFW40244.jpg?v=1626029642","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/charlie-parr-last-of-the-better-days-ahead","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}