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Sat 09 Sep 2007ReviewsCharlie Parr has an inseparable affinity with his music, a 100 per cent-proof blend of bluegrass, blues and country, with a rock-red seam of rag and stomp, writes Laurence Mackin.He plays his steel-bodied guitar with such dexterity and grace, it's difficult to picture him without it.