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Rural Rhythm Christian Announces Two Dove Award Nominations:
Larry Sparks “I Just Want to Thank You Lord”
The Marksmen Quartet “Blue Ridge Mountain Memories”
Rural Rhythm Records is very proud to announce the first two albums released on their new Christian arm of the label, Rural Rhythm Christian, have both received 2010 DOVE Nominations for Bluegrass Album of the Year: Larry Sparks – “I Just Want to Thank You Lord” and The Marksmen Quartet – “Blue Ridge Mountain Memories.” The 41st Annual Dove Awards Show, presented by The Gospel Music Association, will be held April 21, 2010 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN.
 Emerging from the Stanley Brothers’ Clinch Mountain Boys band, Larry Sparks has an impressive 40 year career performing and recording the sounds created by bluegrass music’s first generation. He has always intended to let his music speak for itself as it does with his 2010 Dove nominated, “I Just Want to Thank You Lord” released last October. Sparks has been honored numerous times during his career including recent wins by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) for both the 2004 and 2005 Male Vocalist of the Year, and the 2007 Album of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year. He was also the featured performer at the Southern Gospel National Quartet Convention in 2009.
 The Marksmen Quartet has also been performing their fine blend of music styles for 40 years occupying a unique and special stylistic niche somewhere between Bluegrass Gospel, Country Gospel and Southern Gospel music. They now capture the heart and soul of Classic Mountain Gospel Music with their October 2009 release of “Blue Ridge Mountain Memories.” The group has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including: 4-time “Country Gospel Quartet of the Year” (Country Gospel Music Guild); 4-time winner of the SPGBMA “Bluegrass Gospel Group of the Year”; several #1 Country Gospel Songs including “Love Letters in the Sand”; Gospel Hall of Fame (Texas Country Music Association); Mark Wheeler named Top Male Artist by the Gospel Music Awards (Front Porch Fellowship Bluegrass); 2008 Dove Nomination for the album “God’s Masterpiece”; and the 2010 Dove Nomination for “Blue Ridge Mountain Memories”.
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