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Norman Blake

American musician (born 1938)

Norman L. Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter.

He is half of the eponymous Norman & Nancy Blake band with his wife, Nancy Blake.

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File card: Norman Blake

real name: Norman Lee Blake

labels: Rounder Records

genres: country music

plays: guitar, mandolin, voice

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Early performing

Blake was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Sulphur Springs, Alabama. He listened to old-time and country music on the radio by the Carter Family, the Skillet Lickers, Roy Acuff, and the Monroe Brothers (Charlie and Bill Monroe). He learned guitar at age 11 or 12, then mandolin, dobro, and fiddle in his teens. When he was 16, he dropped out of school to play music professionally.

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Style

Most of the music that Norman Blake plays could be described as neo-traditionalist Americana folk and roots music (folk, bluegrass, country, blues), and many of the songs he plays are traditional, but he plays this acoustic type of music with a style, speed, and quality that has evolved and progressed in the modern age. Though probably best known for his fluid renditions of classic fiddle tunes transcribed for the guitar ("Fiddler's Dream/Whiskey Before Breakfast"), Blake has also written songs that have become bluegrass and folk standards, such as "Ginseng Sullivan", "Slow Train through Georgia", "Billy Gray", and "Church Street Blues".

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American folk artist and bluegrass guitarist, born March 10, 1938, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Husband of artist Nancy Blake. Aside from his solo career and his work with Nancy Blake and The Rising String Fawn Ensemble, he has worked with such luminaries as John Hartford, Tony Rice, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson, Ralph Stanley, Joan Baez, and Robert Plant-Alison Krauss. Appears on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album [url=http://www.discogs.com/Nitty-Gritty-Dirt-Band Also known as: Blake, N. Blake, N.Blake, Norman, Norman L. Blake From Discogs (free to use). Their entry

Liner notes

Norman Blake, the records, oldest first
  1. Home in Sulphur Springs
    1972 album
  2. The Fields of November
    1974 album
  3. Old and New
    1975 album
  4. Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
    1975 album
  5. Norman Blake and Red Rector
    1976 album
  6. Whiskey Before Breakfast
    1976 album
  7. Blackberry Blossom
    1977 album
  8. Directions
    1978 album
  9. The Rising Fawn String Ensemble
    1979 album
  10. Full Moon on the Farm
    1981 album
  11. Original Underground Music From the Mysterious South
    1982 album
  12. Nashville Blues
    1984 album
  13. Lighthouse on the Shore
    1985 album
  14. Blake & Rice
    1987 album
  15. Blind Dog
    1987 album
  16. 2
    1990 album
  17. Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To
    1992 album
  18. While Passing Along This Way
    1994 album
  19. An Americana Christmas
    1995 album
  20. The Hobo's Last Ride
    1996 album
  21. Flat Pickin’ in the Kitchen
    1997 album
  22. Chattanooga Sugar Babe
    1998 album
  23. Be Ready Boys
    1999 album
  24. Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm
    1999 album
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Norman Blake on the air

Side A: on Broken Record Radio

  1. I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental)
  2. You Are My Sunshine

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