Many people play roots music, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota's Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century, Charlie's heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don't strive for authenticity—they are authentic. It's the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up without a TV but with his dad's recordings of America's musical founding fathers, including Charley Patton and Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. With his long scraggly hair, father-time beard, thrift-store workingman's flannel and jeans, and emphatic, throaty voice, Charlie Parr looks and sounds like he would have fit right into Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music." Drawing inspiration from the alternately fertile and frozen soil of his native Minnesota, Charlie uses three instruments, not including his own stomping foot. He got an 1890 banjo the first time he heard Dock Boggs. "I don't do claw hammer, I don't do Scruggs-style, it's just a version of me trying to play like Dock Boggs, I guess," Charlie says. He has two Nationals, a 12-string and a Resonator, which became an obsession when he saw a picture of Son House playing it. Charlie Parr comes to Michigan with his 12th studio release, "Stumpjumper."