A Face in the Crowd, released by Old Homestead Records in 1985 (OHS 90161), is a 12-track Larry Sparks and Lonesome Ramblers album drawn substantially from his earlier Kinda Lonesome session, with two additional tracks added for the new release. The program features Sparks's distinctive bluesy guitar and soulful lead vocal in the working ensemble setting that had defined his sound since the early 1970s. Old Homestead's John Morris had been one of Sparks's steady label allies through the years; the album sits in the productive mid-1980s stretch when Sparks was operating across Rebel and Old Homestead in parallel — keeping a steady stream of releases available to bluegrass audiences who had been with him since the Clinch Mountain Boys days.
Tracklist
- 1 Blue Ridge Mountain Mornings 3:25
- 2 Nobody’s Business alt version 1:52
- 3 Too Late to Worry 2:24
- 4 Lesco 3:06
- 5 Somehow Tonight alt version 3:09
- 6 Guide Me Lord 3:48
- 7 A Face in the Crowd alt version 4:30
- 8 Girl at the Crossroads Bar alt version 2:35
- 9 Carter’s Blues alt version 2:35
- 10 Love of the Mountains alt version 2:58
- 11 Blue Ridge Ramble 1:51
- 12 Sitting in This Lonely Prison 2:16