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Larry Eugene Sparks, (born September 25, 1947) is an American Bluegrass singer and guitarist. He was the winner of the 2004 and 2005 International Bluegrass Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year Award. 2005, won IBMA for Album of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year for his album "40," celebrating his 40th year(2003) in bluegrass music.
Mar 4, 2015 · Larry has also been nominated for a GMA Dove award for his Gospel album, New Highway. He has worked across the United States, visited Canada and toured in Japan. Larry Sparks has released over 60 albums, most notable is 40, celebrating his 40th year, (Rebel 1806), the winner of IBMA’s Album of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year in 2005.
Blue Sparks by Larry Sparks released in 1983. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Larry Eugene Sparks was born on September 25, 1947, in Lebanon, Ohio. He began to develop an interest in music at the age of five when his older sister Bernice began to show him a few things on the guitar. Recordings belonging to older siblings and the clawhammer banjo playing of his father further whetted Larry’s musical appetite.
Listen to Blue Sparks by Larry Sparks on Apple Music. Stream songs including "Come Back, Darling", "I Ain't Holding On Any Longer" and more. Album · 1983 · 12 Songs.
Larry Sparks is a dedicated leader for bluegrass music. Larry is among the most widely known and respected touring musicians in bluegrass and gospel music today. Larry began his career in the mid-1960s as a guitarist with the Stanley Brothers and later became lead vocalist for Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Larry went on to form ...
Larry Sparks grew up as one of nine children in a family that migrated from their native Kentucky to southern Ohio looking for work. By the time he was a teenager, he was playing with the legendary Stanley Brothers. Then, when Carter Stanley passed away in 1966, Sparks found himself with the unenviable task of following a legend.
