54 Years Old

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BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Macon, Georgia in November 1955.
Macon was the home of famous stars, like Richard
Penniman a.k.a. "Little Richard," The Allman Brother's Band, Otis Redding, and others. The number one song that year was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets. Bill Haley, the frontman for the band, was a guitarist and one of the early pioneers of "White" Rock and Roll. My parents moved to Maryland when I was three. My mother was a homemaker and my father owned a painting company called "Sparks Painting and Decorating." My Mother was also a fine artist, a poet, and she loved music. I was the kind of kid who got caught drawing a mural on the wall behind the couch. I loved Punchout Books, drawing, and Bi-planes. Then, in 1963 John Kennedy, the President of the United States was shot, and the Beatles first hit America. Seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show changed everything...

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Rock , Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Pepperland Productions, I own my own publishing

Contact

Publishing: Pepperland Productions
Booking: http://mysite.verizon.net/emsparks/index.htm
Administrative: emsparks@verizon.net

INSTRUMENTS

bass / dobro / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / harmonica / mandolin / percussion / synthesizers / tambourine / vocals

INFLUENCES

Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jackson Browne, Jim Croce James Taylor John Denver Dan Fogelberg, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin, Eagles

DAY JOB

Video Producer/Editor/Soundtrack Musician

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

Three Commercials

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Won several songwriting contests including one for Acoustic Guitar Magazine

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,