| JEFF
PARKER
Two Roads to Travel
Released 2004
Lonesome River
Band's mandolin player and vocalist
Jeff
Parker gives us a stellar bluegrass
gospel album that includes material
from Rick Bartley, David
Carroll, Tim Stafford, Rick Bartley,
Vern
Gosdin, Louvin Brothers, Bill Castle,
Shannon Hess and others. The CD jacket
contains all lyrics. Varied tempos,
keys and rhythms give us a spiritually-tinged
project that covers many musical
moods with Jeff's smooth lead vocals
always in the forefront. Fourteen
cuts are backed by an all-star cast
of the bluegrass elite. The session
musicians include Harold
Nixon, Wayne Fields, Steve Gulley,
Don Gulley,
Tim Stafford, Randy Kohrs, Ron Stewart,
Russell Moore and others.
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Packaging
is a clear jewel case with an 8-panel
lyric booklet.
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Jeff Parker was
born in 1961 and began playing guitar
at age six.
His father (Vester Parker)
was a musician at the Renfro
Valley Barn Dance. At
age 12, Jeff saw his first live performance of the Russell Brothers and
was amazed with the mandolin. Harold
Russell lent Jeff a
mandolin, and he started playing
that instrument
with his family band, Sounds
of Gospel. Jeff's first
professional gig was as a fill-in
mandolin
player for Larry Sparks on
a Renfro Valley show. At age
19,
Jeff and other friends formed
a band called Train 45 that played
for a couple of years. At age
25, Jeff was hired as a full
time staff musician at Renfro
Valley. He worked there until 1994. From 1995-2001, Jeff, his brother Mike, Terry Wolfe, and David Osborne played in the band Wilderness
Trail. In 2001,
Jeff auditioned with the Lonesome
River Band, and he has
been their mandolin player and
singer ever
since. "Two Roads to Travel" is
Jeff's long awaited solo album
that is sure to win the hearts
of bluegrass gospel fans everywhere.
Jeff Parker's touching, harmony-rich
gospel numbers are performed and
sung with deep conviction and reverence.
Without proselytizing, Parker's straight-ahead
Christian messages clearly bring
joy to his and our hearts. "Two
Roads to Travel" is an unqualified
triumph among the large body of bluegrass
gospel releases. What sets this gospel
set apart from even his finest bluegrass
peers is Parker's ability to find,
arrange, sing and play material with
artistic depth and spiritual respect
that is a cut above.
-Joe Ross, staff
writer, Bluegrass Now
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