Millsap, Parker / Very Last Day, The
| Album: | Very Last Day, The | Collection: | Country | |
| Artist: | Millsap, Parker | Added: | Jan 2019 | |
| Label: | Okrahoma Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2019-01-22 | Pull Date: | 2019-03-26 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
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| Week Ending: | Mar 24 | Mar 17 | Mar 10 | Mar 3 | Feb 24 | Feb 17 | Feb 3 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 11, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard
Morning Blues |
4. | Sep 01, 2021: | Hanging in the Bone Yard (rebroadcast from Mar 2, 2019)
Hades Pleads |
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| 2. | Aug 04, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard
Hades Pleads |
5. | Jul 14, 2021: | Totally A (rebroadcast from Feb 1, 2019)
Hands Up |
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| 3. | Oct 12, 2021: | Traditions (rebroadcast from Mar 29, 2019)
Pining |
6. | Jul 08, 2021: | Old Fart At Play (rebroadcast from Feb 1, 2019)
Pining |
Album Review
Mr. Bones
Reviewed 2019-01-23
Reviewed 2019-01-23
The Very Last Day – Parker Millsap
Leave it to Parker Millsap to create a release that is a joy to listen to even while addressing existential topics such as a gay son coming out to his anti-gay father and the apocalypse. Even without its weighty topics, this disk, with its tight rockabilly band and his unique vocal styling would make for a solid release. Throw in clever song writing that mixes his Pentecostal upbringing and a dystopian view of things to come and you've got something well worth playing in this his second full length release.
RIYL: Dave Alvin, Lucinda Williams, Skin & Bones
FCC: None detected
#1) Hades Pleads - jump blues rocker with high energy fiddle about Hades letting loose with a nuclear Holocaust (2:36)
* #2) Pining - pretty, midtempo song about pining for one's love with great piano break (2:44)
* #3) Morning Blues - hypnotic, country blues number with exquisite fiddle/vocal interplay (3:40)
* #4) Heaven Sent - powerful number about a gay young man facing his preacher father (3:52)
* #5) The Very Last Day - funky number about nuclear annihilation (3:00)
#6) Hands Up - uptempo rocker about an ex-solider robbing someone to feed his family (2:41)
#7) Jealous Sun - slower, acoustic number featuring PM's vocals (2:38)
* #8) Wherever You Are -uptempo call for one's sweetheart in defiance of their conservative religion (3:02)
#9) You Gotta Move - strong cover of a Gary Davis / Fred McDowell classic (4:20)
#10) Acoustic number about reenergizing a relationship (4:25)
* #11) Beautiful lament about the loss of a sister with exquisite interplay between vocals & fiddle and guitar (2:55, too short)
* Mr. Bones especially likes these
Leave it to Parker Millsap to create a release that is a joy to listen to even while addressing existential topics such as a gay son coming out to his anti-gay father and the apocalypse. Even without its weighty topics, this disk, with its tight rockabilly band and his unique vocal styling would make for a solid release. Throw in clever song writing that mixes his Pentecostal upbringing and a dystopian view of things to come and you've got something well worth playing in this his second full length release.
RIYL: Dave Alvin, Lucinda Williams, Skin & Bones
FCC: None detected
#1) Hades Pleads - jump blues rocker with high energy fiddle about Hades letting loose with a nuclear Holocaust (2:36)
* #2) Pining - pretty, midtempo song about pining for one's love with great piano break (2:44)
* #3) Morning Blues - hypnotic, country blues number with exquisite fiddle/vocal interplay (3:40)
* #4) Heaven Sent - powerful number about a gay young man facing his preacher father (3:52)
* #5) The Very Last Day - funky number about nuclear annihilation (3:00)
#6) Hands Up - uptempo rocker about an ex-solider robbing someone to feed his family (2:41)
#7) Jealous Sun - slower, acoustic number featuring PM's vocals (2:38)
* #8) Wherever You Are -uptempo call for one's sweetheart in defiance of their conservative religion (3:02)
#9) You Gotta Move - strong cover of a Gary Davis / Fred McDowell classic (4:20)
#10) Acoustic number about reenergizing a relationship (4:25)
* #11) Beautiful lament about the loss of a sister with exquisite interplay between vocals & fiddle and guitar (2:55, too short)
* Mr. Bones especially likes these
Track Listing
| 1. | Hades Pleads | 6. | Hands Up | |||
| 2. | Pining | 7. | Jealous Sun | |||
| 3. | Morning Blues | 8. | Wherever You Are | |||
| 4. | Heaven Sent | 9. | You Gotta Move | |||
| 5. | The Very Last Day | 10. | A Little Fire | |||
| 11. | Tribulation Hymn | |||||