Anders Keith Parker is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades. He has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as a key member in bands such as Varnaline and

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. Parker has been involved in various collaborations over the years including Gob Iron with

Jay Farrar Jay Stuart Farrar (born December 26, 1966) is an American songwriter and musician based in St. Louis. A member of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his talent as ...

Biography

Anders Parker is a first-generation

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Anders Parker Skyscraper Crow album bio
accessed July 31, 2016. He was born circa 1970 and grew up in

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, in the

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, in a musical family. His father lived in

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. In the 1990s Anders moved briefly to Portland, Oregon. He spent some time in North Carolina where he lived with Matt Brown, founder of Bladen County Records, and worked in a bar. He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly. In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline. Parker lived for some time in New York City. In 2008 he moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he lived with his wife as of 2014. In 2016 he had been living in the town of

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in the Canadian

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– the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 508 miles from the

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Career

In 2004, Parker released his ''

Tell It to the Dust ''Tell it to the Dust'' is a 2004 studio album by American singer-songwriter and guitarist Anders Parker. Background ''Tell It to the Dust'' is a twelve-track album. It follows the final album by Varnaline, ''Songs in a Northern Key'', which was ...

'' album on the

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label. Parker's mini-album / EP ''The Wounded Astronaut'' was released in March 2005. In 2006 / 2007, Anders Parker's

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album was released on Baryon BYN-006.

Discography

Anders Parker

*''There's A Blue Bird In My Heart'' (2014) *''

New Multitudes ''New Multitudes'' is a Woody Guthrie tribute album performed by Jay Farrar, Will Johnson (musician), Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Jim James, Yim Yames to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Guthrie's birth, released through Rounder Record ...

'' (with

, Will Johnson, and

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) (2012) * ''Cross Latitudes'' (2010) * ''Skyscraper Crow'' (double CD) (2009) * ''14th & Division'' (live) (2007) * ''

Anders Parker Anders Keith Parker is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades. He has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as a key member in bands such as Varnaline and Space N ...

'' (2006) * ''The Wounded Astronaut'' (EP) (2005) * ''

'' (2004)

Gob Iron (with Jay Farrar)

* ''Death Songs for the Living'' (2006)

Varnaline

* ''Songs in a Northern Key'' (2001) * ''Sweet Life'' (1998) * ''A Shot and a Beer'' (EP) (1997) * ''Varnaline'' (1997) * ''

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'' (1996)

Space Needle

* ''The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle'' (1997) * ''Recordings'' 1994–1997 (compilation) (2006)

References

External links

*
Varnaline.com, an archive from the Varnaline days

GobIron.net, the official Gob Iron website
* Discogs
Anders Parker
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