SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER

RECORDINGS

music, storytelling, history

Let Freedom Ring

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

Let Freedom Ring album cover

Order
  • We Shall Not Be Moved
  • Living River
  • Marching Through Georgia
  • Wade in the Water
  • Uncle Sam's Daughter
  • Oh Freedom
  • Which Side Are You On?
  • Corrina, Corrina
  • Circle of Love
  • Midnight Special
  • Sylvie
  • Hold On
  • Dog, Dog
  • We Shall Overcome

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One Earth

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

One Earth album cover

Order
  • Point of No Return
  • Space That You Left Behind
  • One Earth
  • My Blues
  • Two Hearts in Trouble
  • Drive Back the Night
  • Winter is Nigh
  • Silas McGee
  • Hard As Stone
  • Song for Babe
  • The Best of Me
  • Ramblin' 'Round the World

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The Mountains Above and the Valleys Below

Traditional Appalachian Music
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

Appalachian album cover

Order
  • Reuben's Train
  • Camp a Little While in the Wilderness
  • Pretty Polly
  • Rovin' Gambler
  • Ain't Gonna Throw it Away
  • The Good Old Way (Down in the Valley to Pray)
  • Goin' 'Cross the Mountain
  • Tom Dooley
  • Bound for the Promised Land
  • C. C. Rider
  • Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
  • Mole in the Ground
  • Pretty Saro
  • John the Revelator
  • Down in the Valley

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Done Told the Truth, Goodbye!

Traditional American Folk Tales
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

storytelling album cover

Order
  • Br'er Fox's Hunting Trip
  • Why the Alligator's Back is Rough
  • The Nature of Tricksters
  • Long John
  • Big Sixteen
  • Br'er Coon and the Frogs
  • Elder Rucker and the Ghosts

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"Warm, wonderful stories performed by two of Tennessee's most gifted storytellers. These are the stories you wish had been told by your parents and grandparents."
Sam Venable,
Knoxville News-Sentinel columnist

Midnight Memories

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

midnight memories album cover

Order
  • Midnight Thirst
  • Little Woman So Sweet
  • Big Road Blues
  • Campfire Memories
  • Prodigal Son
  • Betty and Dupree
  • Stay on the Battlefield
  • Walkin' My Blues Away
  • Snowin' on the Redwoods
  • Make A Change

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The Blue & Gray in Black & White

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

blue & gray album cover

Order
  • The Battle Cry of Freedom
  • Dixie's Land
  • Bonnie Blue Flag
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Goodbye
  • Lorena
  • O I'm a Good Old Rebel
  • Tenting on the Old Campground
  • Glory Hallelujah Suite
  • There is a Fountain Filled With Blood

Treasures & Tears

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

Treasures & Tears album cover

Order
  • Stranger Blues
  • Space That You Left Behind
  • Louise McGhee/Death Letter Blues
  • Buffalo Soldier Suite
  • Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
  • Footprints on the Ceiling
  • Shady Grove
  • Last Chance Shakin' in the Bed
  • Careless Love
  • Titanic Epic

Eventide:
Songs of Celebration

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

Eventide album cover

Order
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain
  • Silent Night
  • Jingle Bells
  • Faith of Our Fathers
  • Simple Gifts
  • Welcome Table
  • Amazing Grace
  • Somewhere Listening
  • Were You There?
  • Oh, Mary
  • Spirit Calling
  • Lakotah Lullabye
  • Near The Cross
    (CD only)
  • Pass Me Not
    (CD only)

Drive Back the Night

James "Sparky" Rucker

Drive Back the Night album cover

Order
  • Babylon Blues
  • Lay My Burden Down
  • M & O Blues
  • Blues in a Bordertown Jail
  • Drive Back the Night
  • A Song for Babe
  • Satisfied and Tickled Too
  • Kind-Hearted Woman
  • Break of Day Blues
  • A Beautiful Life
  • Rock Me Baby
    (CD only)
  • Crossroads Blues
    (CD only)

A Home in Tennessee

James "Sparky" Rucker

A Home in Tennessee album cover

Order
  • Froggy Went A Courtin'
  • Skip to my Lou
  • Candy Man
  • Oh Susannah
  • Red River Valley
  • Crawdad
  • Sail Away Ladies
  • My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains
  • I've Been Working on the Railroad
  • She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain

Heroes & Hard Times:

Black American Ballads and Story Songs

James "Sparky" Rucker
with John Davis and Rhonda H. Rucker

Heroes and Hard Times album cover

Order
  • John Henry/Po' Boy
  • Take This Hammer
  • I've Been Working on the Railroad
  • 900 Miles
  • Stagger Lee
  • Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • John Hardy
  • Delia Holmes
  • Poor Lazarus
  • Yellow Rose of Texas
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Go Down, Moses (with Rhonda)
  • Jesse James (with Rhonda)

Cold & Lonesome On a Train

James "Sparky" Rucker
with John Davis

Cold and Lonesome on a Train album cover

Order
  • Crossroads
  • Here Rattler Here
  • Cold and Lonesome On a Train
  • Come On in My Kitchen
  • The Bakery Truck is Comin'
  • Railroad Bill
  • Kind-Hearted Woman
  • Hesitation Blues
  • Love in Vain
  • Go Down Old Hannah
  • Divin' Duck Blues
  • Walkin' Blues
  • Pallet on the Floor
  • Silas McGee
  • Gospel Train

Patchwork Tales:
Stories From the Rucker Performance Archives

with Rhonda Rucker

Patchwork Tales album cover

(Currently out of print)

  • The Tricksters
  • Long John
  • Bootlegger's Blues
  • Against the Law
  • Bootlegger's (Reprise)
  • Airborne!!!
  • Goin' Fishin'
  • Brer Rabbit and Sister Hornet
  • Tailypo
  • Chain Gangs and Donuts
  • Here Rattler! Here!

Tall Tales of the Blue Ridge:
Stories From the Heart of Appalachia

(Video released by Eastern National Park & Monument Association)

This collection of tales features Sparky Rucker, Ray Hicks, and Donald Davis (with music by Sparky and Rhonda Rucker).

Bound to Sing the Blues

Sparky Rucker

(currently out of print)

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