(Rebel REB-1633) 1983.
This is an excellent instrumental album which was recorded over four days at Riverside Studio, Ashland, Kentucky (3 & 10 June 1984); and Chandler Audio, Ashland, Kentucky (19 Nov & 10 Dec 1984). Featuring Josh Graves on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle/mandolin, Sandy Rothman also appears on The Old Spinning Wheel, whilst the banjo on the remaining cuts is by John Masters.
Larry's guitar style is unlike any other bluegrass act, which prompted James Alan Shelton to comment: "As a guitar player, he has accomplished the one thing that is so hard to do and that is he doesn't sound like anybody else!"[1]
Larry had previously recorded Bob Wills' Faded Love on Ramblin' Bluegrass (1973) & The Footsteps Of Tradition (1974); plus The Ramblin' Guitar on Ramblin' Guitar (1970).
Other sources of material include Flatt & Scruggs Farewell Blues, Roy Acuff Low And Lonely, Tommy Duncan's Time Changes Everything, and the 1912 hymn In The Garden by Charles Austin Miles.
It's a measure of the calibre of Larry & the other musicians, and Larry's knack for arrangement, that the album flows so well and stands up to repeated listens.
The cover photos by Richard Boyd were taken at The Fret Mill music store in Roanoke, Virgina.
NB: (*) banjo on Spinning Wheel only.
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| A-1 |
Chittlin Cookin' Time In Cheatum County |
02:17 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| A-2 |
Faded Love |
02:55 |
03 Jun + 19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Bob Wills |
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| A-3 |
The Old Spinning Wheel |
02:09 |
10 Dec 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| A-4 |
Ramblin' Guitar |
02:18 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Larry Sparks |
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| A-5 |
In The Garden |
03:05 |
03 Jun 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Charles Austin Miles |
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| A-6 |
Florida Blues |
02:32 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Arthur Leroy Smith |
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| B-1 |
Carroll County Blues |
02:51 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| B-2 |
Time Changes Everything |
02:44 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Tommy Duncan |
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| B-3 |
Buffalo Gals |
02:33 |
19 Nov 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| B-4 |
Farewell Blues |
02:33 |
10 Jun 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| B-5 |
Under The Double Eagle |
01:45 |
10 Jun 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| P.D. |
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| B-6 |
Low And Lonely |
02:39 |
10 Jun 1984 |
Lonesome Guitar |
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| Floyd Jenkins |
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[1] liner notes to the CD reissue of John Deere Tractor.