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Minton Sparks
Middlin Sisters
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Line Up
2. Trella's Trash
3. Mississippi Moonshine
4. Grace on the 4th
5. Words of Wisdom
6. Rich Man, Poor Man, Timber Man, Drunk
7. Speak to Me, Tennessee
8. Mourning the Missionaries
9. Primary Resistance
10. Pilgrimage to Aunt Virginia's
11. If Only, Aunt Sye
12. John 3:16, Guest Preacher at Prayer Meeting

CD Details

All Artists: Minton Sparks
Title: Middlin Sisters
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Dualtone
Release Date: 5/8/2001
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Americana, Bluegrass
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 803020111028

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This utterly unique release from Minton Sparks consists solely of her reading her poetry with guitar, mandolin, banjo, and dobro support played in an old-school country idiom. While this may seem a limited if not outright silly idea to some, the result is stirring and sometimes downright magical. The poetry consists mostly of vignettes recalling Sparks' youth growing up in Tennessee, and when coupled with the stark underpinning of Darryl Scott's picking, the effect is that of Eudora Welty jamming with Dock Boggs or Doc Watson. While the hit potential of such a release is an obvious nonissue, it would be a refreshing surprise to hear this in your local Starbucks. A merging of the two great southern traditions of literature and country music, Sister is certainly preferable to most of what is sold as C&W these days. --Mike Johnson

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CD Reviews

Soulful Sweaty Sweet Southern Stew

J. Calloway | Nashville, TN USA | 05/21/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Minton Sparks has cooked and conjured up a Southern word-stew that does more than just paint pictures in your mind. As you drink this concoction down you experience memories of place and family that, if you are flesh and blood, are real for you. You don't have to be Southern to understand this cd. You just have to have lived among the species human. Because "Middlin' Sisters" is, for me, about the essence, the rue, the drippings of joyful, loving, unvarnished, god awful humanity. From "Trella's Trash" to "Line Up" you'll think to yourself "I know that person...I've been to that place...that IS my family." If you've ever had a drunk uncle or an aunt you adored or a grandmother with a switch in her hand, you know "Middlin Sisters". No cd has ever made me FEEL like this one does. Minton Sparks - Lord God this woman is 100% ALIVE!! And her gift is that she makes me remember that I am, too."