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The Richmond Indiana-based Palladium-Item reported on Sunday that bluegrass veteran Larry Sparks is to receive the Legacy Continues Award from the Starr-Gennett Foundation. Sparks who has enjoyed over 40 years as a professional bluegrass musician, beginning when he started high school and was at the same time working for the Stanley Brothers. Subsequently, he formed [...]
Yesterday (Friday 6/13) I received a note from John Lilly, the editor of Goldenseal (the magazine of West Virginia traditional life) and multi-talented acoustic music performer, telling me about what's on West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage show this coming week. The programme schedule includes the recording of a show taped on March 16 in [...]
Rebel Records has announced the release in early May of two new collections of music from their archives. The first of these is The Best Of The Vetco Years from Dave Evans & River Bend (REB-7519) drawn from the LP's-worth of material Evans recorded for the Cincinnati-based Vetco label. The first, Dave Evans and Riverbend [...]
Larry Sparks is set to release his new, all-Gospel CD, I Don't Regret A Mile, on March 27. After his last two critically-acclaimed projects, 40 and The Last Suit You Wear - both of which featured Larry with a great many guest studio performers - he has decided to create an album with his touring [...]
Larry Sparks is on the cover of the September/October '07 issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The cover feature finds Larry discussing his new CD, The Last Suit You Wear, plus his road band, his personal guitar, his sister's songwriting and his future performing and recording plans. Also profiled in the current issue are radio host [...]
Rebel Records continues to make notable recordings from their back catalog available as download-only releases via iTunes. Two new titles have been added to their digital catalog this month. Blue Sparks is a 1983 release from Larry Sparks with Jim Heffernan on dobro, Gene Elders on fiddle, John Masters on banjo, Terry Barnes on mandolin [...]
Here are three interviews we found this past few days in local newspapers' coverage of upcoming entertainment events. First up is King Wilkie, whose Reid Burgess was interviewed in The Dallas Morning News on July 23. He spoke with Mario Tarradell about the band's decision to break with their traditional bluegrass sound for a more [...]
There is an online feature about the latest Larry Sparks release, The Last Suit You Wear, up at CMT.com. Written by Edward Morris, the piece provides details about the new release, interspersed with comments from Sparks, along with a brief overview of his more than 40 year career in bluegrass music. Sparks was just 16 [...]
Here are two more reflections on the passing of Ray Goins from his friends and contemporaries in the music business. Paul Williams had this to say about his old friend. I first met Ray Goins, when I was with The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers in 1951. Jimmy Williams had left to go and work for Mac [...]
CMT.com is reporting that McCoury Music has signed an exclusion distribution deal with RED Distribution. McCoury Music was formed to release the recordings of bluegrass superstar Del McCoury when he left Rounder Records in 2003. They are also set to release the new CD from Larry Sparks, The Last Suit You Wear, tomorrow (5/1), and [...]
