Art Wydner

Musician
Best known for Bass

Art Wydner was the bass player in Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers, the band Sparks built after leaving the Stanley Brothers, and he is on more of that band’s recordings in this catalog than anyone outside Sparks himself.

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  • He played bass with the Lonesome Ramblers in the early 1970s, the years when Sparks was establishing the sound — slow, heavy, and built around one of the most distinctive lead voices in bluegrass.
  • Bass in that band is a matter of restraint: Sparks sings behind the beat, and the rhythm section has to leave the space for it.
  • He also recorded with Dave Evans and River Bend in the late 1970s.
  • He sang as well as played.
  • In this catalog he appears on twenty-two Lonesome Ramblers recordings and two with Dave Evans.

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