A 40-second video of Duane Swenk turned him into a minor TikTok star and led thousands of customers to Sparta Candle Co., a North Carolina-based candle- and soap-making business that his daughter Jennifer Swenk started three years ago in a spare bedroom.
SPARTA — Who knows why a video featuring a 70-year-old Sparta man wearing an Allman Brothers T-shirt and cutting a bar of peaches-and-cream soap registered 9 million views on TikTok?
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‘Jubilation’ features 13-tracks of instrumental runs, songs inspired by the Civil War and America’s barn dance eras, and music influenced by greats from Tony Rice, Flatt and Scruggs, and 8-string fiddle pioneer Benny Martin to Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin. The album’s first single “Blue Ridge Mountain Baby” is out now. Plus, check out tour dates!