If It Was Up To Me - Robert Connely Farr (live / demo)

one of the first videos that Tyler McLeod & I ever made, before the recording of the Country Supper album (which this song is on) & in my old home studio in East Vancouver where I wrote this & so many other songs
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Robert Connely Farr is a songwriter from Bolton, Mississippi - hometown of musical legends Charley Patton & the Mississippi Sheiks. Farr is a friend & protege of Jimmy Duck Holmes, one of the original Bentonia bluesmen who learned directly from Henry Stuckey (who also taught Skip James).
His 2019 “Dirty South Blues” & was released to immediate critical acclaim. Greg Vandy at KEXP named it as one of their top albums of the year & earned Farr nominations for both Songwriter of the Year & New Artist of the Year by Canada’s prestigious Maple Blues Awards. After an emergency cancer diagnosis & surgery, Farr hit the ground running & 2020 saw Robert release 3 albums culminating in “Country Supper” generating sustained buzz & landed on numerous Best of 2020 lists. Farr’s music has been used on Amazon Prime (Reacher) Netflix (Snowpiercer), SYFY (Resident Alien) , Lifetime & TNT . He currently resides in East Vancouver Canada.
Check out Farr’s latest studio album Pandora Sessions at Bandcamp - its Southern Delta / Country Blues rooted in the teachings of Jimmy Duck Holmes & his Bentonia Style
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Recent Press:
Americana Highways
"dirtier, darker & better than ever... roots blues at its best & Farr has it down to a T" Americana Highways on ‘Pandora Sessions’
“electric guitar blues stripped back to it’s essence. I’ve heard no better example of it this year.” Post To Wire (AUS) on ‘Shake It’
"Love that song (Cadillac Problems) & record. Well Done sir." Joe Bonamassa on “Country Supper”
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"this isn’t Nashville ‘bro-country’ cranked out of Music City. This is soulful, lonesome, what if Ol’ Hank were still alive country-blues. ..some of the best of the original Mississippi blues in a style that remains relevant today." American Blues Scene
"menacing, gutteral..."
Smithsonian Magazine
Song written by Robert Connely Farr

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one of my favorites. thank you Robert

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This is good Robert.

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Appreciate that 👊👊

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so dig the rawness of this recording. thank you, so much. -C

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❤🙏 appreciate that

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