Headline : Charlie Parr Is a Blues Troubadour Who Sleeps in His Minivan. He’s Never Been Happier

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It’s a warm spring day in Asheville, North Carolina, and Charlie Parr is sitting on the back stairwell of Eulogy, a trendy music venue in the South Slope neighborhood. Later that evening, the singer-songwriter will play to a packed crowd. But, for now, Parr is soaking in every last ray of sunshine before he has to return to his native Minnesota, where winter has yet to fully let go.

“For a while, I think I was feeling intimidated by a lot of stuff,” Parr tells Rolling Stone. “Aging is intimidating. The music industry’s very intimidating. New love life. And [my kids] getting older — everything just piles up.”Parr is set to turn 57 a few weeks after this interview. With this latest circle around the sun, the musician — sporting a flannel shirt, scruffy beard, and thin-framed spectacles — has a lot to be thankful for, including the release of his latest album, Little Sun, which hit the streets the day after the Eulogy gig in March.

Recorded in Portland, Oregon, Little Sun — his 18th studio album since his 2002 debut — was produced by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists).

“We were just sitting around, trying different things, playing the songs a bunch of different ways, which I’d never gotten to do in a studio before,” Parr says of the laid-back session, which birthed songs like the rollicking “Boombox.”

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