Name: Be Here Instead
Brand: Parker Millsap

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Bonus disc: No

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OKRA005CD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-09

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Supplier GB

The Orchard

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Standard:20

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787790344452

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

OKRA005LP

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787790344551

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Artist

Parker Millsap

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Okrahoma Records

Parker Millsap is a talented singer-songwriter hailing from Oklahoma. With his soulful voice and captivating storytelling, he has gained recognition as one of the most promising artists in Americana music today.

His music draws inspiration from a variety of genres including folk, blues, and rock. His lyrics are introspective and thought-provoking, exploring themes of love, faith, and the human experience. Parker's ability to connect with his audience through his heartfelt performances sets him apart as an artist.

With a sound reminiscent of artists like Langhorne Slim and Justin Townes Earle, Parker Millsap has carved out his own unique niche in the music industry. Whether performing solo or with his band, he delivers powerful live performances that leave audiences wanting more.

The fifth album from Oklahoma-bred singer/songwriter Parker Millsap, Be Here Instead emerged from a wild alchemy of instinct, ingenuity, and joyfully determined rule-breaking. In a departure from the guitar-and-notebook-based approach to songwriting that shaped his earlier work, the Nashville-based artist followed his curiosity to countless other modes of expression, experimenting with everything from piano to effects pedals to old-school drum machines (a fascination partly inspired by the early-’70s innovations of Sly Stone and J.J. Cale).

As those explorations deepened and broadened his musical vision, Millsap soon arrived at a body of work touched with both unbridled imagination and lucid insight into the search for presence in a chaotic world. Produced by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Waxahatchee) and mainly recorded live with Millsap’s full band, Be Here Instead marks a stylistic shift from the gritty and high-energy folk of his previous output, including 2018’s acclaimed Other Arrangements and 2016’s The Very Last Day (an Americana Music Association Awards nominee for Album of the Year). With its adventurous yet immaculately detailed sonic palette, the album warps genres to glorious effect, at one point offering up what Millsap aptly refers to as a “disco-Americana showtune.” In another creative breakthrough, Be Here Instead forgoes the character-driven storytelling of his past in favor of a more introspective and endlessly revelatory form of lyricism, an element he traces back to the charmed nature of his songwriting process. 

Be Here Instead

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