Parks Icenhour

Musician

Parks Icenhour is a bluegrass guitarist known for flashy flat-top lead playing over solid rhythm, a style he built from Clarence White’s records. He played lead guitar with Brothers N’ Bluegrass on its Leather Records albums of 1978 and 1980, on Hugh Moore’s Folkways album Hello City Limits in 1985, and in the Garrett Newton Band in the late 2010s.

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Brothers N’ Bluegrass, with Glen Dyer on guitar and lead vocals, Bill Wall on banjo and Lee Roy Prince on mandolin, recorded Wanted for Pickin’ Grass (Leather LBG 7701, 1978) at KA Studios in Roanoke, Virginia, with Phil Franklin on fiddle and Icenhour on flat-top lead guitar, and Red Hot and Bluegrass (Leather LBG 7708, 1980) at Threshold Recording in Roanoke, with Mickey Drye on bass.

In August 1985 he played lead guitar on Hugh Moore’s Hello City Limits, made with Roby Huffman and the Bluegrass Cutups at Star Recording in Miller’s Creek, North Carolina, and issued by Folkways in 1986. His playing is featured on the title song and on Moore’s instrumental “Let It Ride,” and he sang the bass part on the Louvin Brothers’ “The Family Who Prays.”

By December 2017 he was the lead guitarist in the Garrett Newton Band, led by the young banjo player Garrett Newton, with Allen Dyer on guitar, Daniel Aldridge on mandolin and Lorraine Jordan on bass. He played lead guitar and sang on the band’s Pinecastle album Bluegrass Barn (2019), recorded at Old Stage Recording Studio in Garner, North Carolina.

  • Hugh Moore
    Played on recording with Hugh Moore

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