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This Dress by Minton Sparks
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fave it With Music | Poetry
12 tracks | 29 minutes
Released Dec 2002
on Rural Records
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:43 Fill Her UP BUY MP3 02:43 Fill Her UP "GIFT MP3" 02:43 Fill Her UP
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:55 Sorrow Knows This Dress BUY MP3 01:55 Sorrow Knows This Dress "GIFT MP3" 01:55 Sorrow Knows This Dress
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:41 Bird in a Cage BUY MP3 02:41 Bird in a Cage "GIFT MP3" 02:41 Bird in a Cage
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:31 When You Comin Home Girl? FREE 02:31 When You Comin Home Girl? "GIFT MP3" 02:31 When You Comin Home Girl?
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 Ambulance Chaser BUY MP3 03:56 Ambulance Chaser "GIFT MP3" 03:56 Ambulance Chaser
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:58 Her Purse BUY MP3 02:58 Her Purse "GIFT MP3" 02:58 Her Purse
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:23 Dance Caller at the Marco Polo Park BUY MP3 03:23 Dance Caller at the Marco Polo Park "GIFT MP3" 03:23 Dance Caller at the Marco Polo Park
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Killin' Time BUY MP3 02:07 Killin' Time "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Killin' Time
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 I Thought He Might Kill Her BUY MP3 02:29 I Thought He Might Kill Her "GIFT MP3" 02:29 I Thought He Might Kill Her
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:04 Momma Flies a Car BUY MP3 01:04 Momma Flies a Car "GIFT MP3" 01:04 Momma Flies a Car
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:39 Epihany BUY MP3 01:39 Epihany "GIFT MP3" 01:39 Epihany
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:53 Put Her To Rest BUY MP3 01:53 Put Her To Rest "GIFT MP3" 01:53 Put Her To Rest
Spoken word with music, featuring Keb Mo' and Maura O'Connell
Bio / Background
Writer Dorothy Allison says, "Minton Sparks sounds like my momma, my Aunt Dot, my Aunt Grace and even a bit like my Uncle Jack-only better and wilder and heartbreakingly more powerful. If I could have heard poetry like this as a girl, I wouldn't have had to waste all those years thinking we were dumb as dirt."
Nobody strikes the very core of rural southern women like Nashville performance poet, Minton Sparks. Sparks brand new CD, THIS DRESS, wears perfectly. The wildly original spoken word artist pens and performs deep, dark poetry collaborations that may literally curl your hair, and shock your shoes off. Each piece casting a Southern spell over listeners; they arrive square in the middle of an unforgettable people and place!
Sparks collaborates with the best in the business. Grammy winner, Keb Mo', lends his unmistakable chops on "Ambulance Chasers," where a young girl stumbles upon "the first dead body I ever saw, stinking fish-white beneath a sheet.
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