Sparks finds a "New Highway"

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame member recorded at Mountain Home's western North Carolina studios. Sparks was backed by regular band members — Scott Napier on mandolin and Jim Britton on banjo — and a couple of the label's own stalwarts in Tim Surrett (bass) and multi-instrumentalist David Johnson (fiddle, Dobro), as well as occasional contributors John Bowman (guitar) and Tricia Robertson (harmony vocals). Sparks handled most of the vocal harmonies himself.

Sparks recorded two songs each from Homer and Bruce Jackson; two from long-time colleague David Marshall of the Marshall Family; one, "The Old Love Letter," that had been recorded just a couple of years earlier for a sister label to Mountain Home by Southern Gospel legends, The McKameys; a pair of standards in "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and "When The Savior Reached Down For Me," and a left-field choice of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Gotta Move," here given a classically up-tempo bluegrass treatment.