Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones - Cotton Pickin' Rockers (10 INCH)

-The first vinyl disc on Bear Family Records® featuring early rockers from Spartanburg, South Carolina - one of the strongholds of Southern rock more than a decade later with the Marshall Tucker Band.-Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones made rock and roll history as teenagers back in 1957 with Black Slacks, a true rock smash and hit success!-In addition to their trademark record, we've selected thirteen more rocking highlights from the band's repertoire for our 10inch vinyl LP, including some scarcer recordings.-Carefully mastered and adequately journalistically accompanied with liner notes by Bill Dahl.They started rocking young during the '50s down in Spartanburg, South Carolina. None of the four members in Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones were past their mid-teens (Bennett's diminutive vocal partner and rhythm guitarist Howard 'Sparky' Childress was all of 14) when they roared up the hit parade in 1957 with their blistering rocker Black Slacks. That youthful vigor defined everything t