PHIL PARR
musician, studio engineer, blind handyman
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Legend in My Own Spare Time
This album was completed in 2003 at my studio here at the little ranch house on Southwood Drive in Lufkin Texas. I had been kicking this name around for several years and this album just seamed to fit it. We called it Legend In My Own Spare Time. I did all the rhythm section and wrote most of the songs. Plus I included a couple of songs I had been wanting to record for a while. There is also a cut from a cassette that is the original version of List of the People You Love. It’s the one I presented to Luan on her thirtieth birthday back in, well, that’s enough about that. Hope you find something on this album you like, here are samples of all the songs. Hear a preview- $10.00
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Phil, Thru the Years
I don’t remember what we originally called this collection but it has been renamed. Most of this album was done in 1989 over at my old house on a Fostex eight-track tape recorder. I did the rhythm stuff on the first six tracks and then moved all of that to tracks 7 and 8. This left me six tracks for leads and vocals. This day and time that sounds impossible but that is what I had so I did it. At that time I had no compressors or peak limiters so everything had to be very carefully mixed. Fortunately the room and my monitor were pretty good and it all came out well. I think it is the best stuff I have ever done but, that’s just my opinion.
After we got recordable CD’s we went back and put all the stuff I did on little 45 records many years ago back in Houston on them and renamed all of it, Phil, Thru the Years. We also added a couple of Christmas songs at the end with the Harris sisters Jovina and Juanita singing with me. Give a listen and let me know what you think. Here are samples of all the songs. Hear a preview- $10.00
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American Classic Country
Early in this decade karaoke got to be a big deal in clubs all over. Maybe it got big before that but I was not aware of it. Anyway, my friend Leonard Peterson bought a collection of karaoke songs and I copied them and bought some myself. These were of good quality and I thought well, I could do an album with these. Point being, here is the album and I called it, American Classic Country after a show I did on the local radio for several years.
I do an introduction with each song and give a little history about the original artist who made the song famous. My wife says I should separate the songs from the introductions and, maybe someday I will do that. But for now here is the album. There are a couple of songs I had tracks on done here in my studio but for the most part these are karaoke cuts. Somehow I left the first one out but I will give the title anyway. Hear a preview
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Phil and Friends
I met Bryan Harkness in 2004 and he became immediately interested in learning about studio things. Bryan was just 18 years old at the time and had never been around any professional pickers in a studio situation. By then I was pretty much state of the art and we began planning an album. We laid down some tracks and about a year later Bryan had moved on. You know, the attention span of the young is not very long. I got him in to help finish things and here is what we came up with. Hear a preview- $10.00
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