Larry Sparks, Dave Evans get deep vault treatement from Rebel Records

Sparks' "Bound to Ride" will feature "a lot of his well-known tracks over his Rebel career," said Mark Freeman of Rebel Records.

Sparks' first disc for Rebel was "John Deere Tractor" in 1980. The new CD will have 14 songs. Three of the songs have been unavailable on CD.

Evans' disc will be "Best of the Vetco Years." Evans did 2 albums for the small regional label Vetco in Cincinnati around 1980, one self-titled and "Call Me Long Gone." "The first album became kind of an underground classic," said Freeman. "That was Dave's first proper album."

"We've taken every song that was on that first album, which was 11 tracks. We pulled four songs form the 'Call Me Long Gone ' album. It's a total of 15 tracks. We've remastered it, and we're going to have photos and notes."

The two releases came out about five years ago on Crosscut Records. Rebel bought the rights albums last year at about the time Rebel was working on another collection of Evans' Rebel material. He recorded five discs for Rebel. Freeman said the Rebel compilation will eventually see the light of day.