Middlin’ Sisters is a sui generis CD that draws on the best of the three genres–balladry, spoken-word poetry, and alternative country–to create an individual, appealing testament of the rural Southern female experience. Sparks, the author, has garnered praise from folk as disparate as author Will D. Campbell and Waylon Jennings. The latter makes a rare a cappella contribution to the CD, which features instrumental backing by Nashville’s own Darrell Scott, Rob Jackson, and Marcus Hummon.
(originally published in the Nashville Scene / Village Voice Media, 2001)
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