Larry Sparks

Larry Sparks

Larry Sparks

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Top Songs

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Roving Gambler
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Tennessee 1949
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John Deere Tractor
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Mama's Apron Strings
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Smoky Mountain Memories

Albums

  • It's Just Me

    Mar 2023 • 10 songs

  • Sweetheart

    Mar 2023 • 1 song

  • New Highway

    Feb 2023 • 10 songs

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Larry Sparks

Biography

Larry Sparks has said that he's the youngest old-timer around, and the self-description is an apt one. Emerging from the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys band, Sparks carried on with the sounds created by bluegrass music's first generation. His style was no knockoff, however; it had a distinctively bluesy tinge anchored by Sparks' own guitar, a comparatively unusual lead instrument in bluegrass, where the triad of mandolin, banjo, and fiddle had defined the musical texture since the genre's early days. Sparks grew up in Lebanon, OH, in the southwestern part of the stat...
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