Larry Sparks Sings Hank Williams is a 1977 County Records album (County 759), recorded in 1976 at Sundance Studio with a lineup that placed Sparks's bluegrass sensibility at the center of Williams's honky-tonk catalog. The session features a twenty-two-year-old Ricky Skaggs on mandolin — among his most prominent pre-fame appearances — alongside the legendary Chubby Wise on fiddle. Wise had played on Bill Monroe's original Blue Grass Boys recordings in the 1940s and on Flatt & Scruggs's foundational sessions, giving the album a direct lineage to the tradition's roots. Tommy Boyd plays banjo and Art Wydner bass. The combination of Sparks's deep, Stanley-influenced baritone with Wise's historic fiddle tone connects Hank Williams's music to the bluegrass tradition that helped shape it.
Tracklist
- 1 No One Will Ever Know 3:02
- 2 Dixie Cannonball 2:09
- 3 Someday You'll Call My Name 2:56
- 4 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry alt version 2:31
- 5 Battle Of Armegeddon 3:16
- 6 Waltz of the Wind 2:48
- 7 Singing Waterfall 2:48
- 8 Mind Your Own Business alt version 2:54
- 9 My Heart Would Know 2:47
- 10 I Saw the Light alt version 2:43
- 11 Mansion On The Hill 2:36
- 12 Blue Love 2:41