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1) Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938) is a traditional American stringed instrument bluegrass artist and songwriter.
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.
In the 1950s, Blake joined the Dixieland Drifters and performed on radio broadcasts, then joined the Lonesome Travelers. When he was drafted in 1961, he served as an Army radio operator in the Panama Canal Zone. He started a popular band known as the Kobbe Mountaineers. A year later, while he was on leave, he recorded the album Twelve Shades of Bluegrass with the Lonesome Travelers.
After being discharged from the Army, Blake moved to Nashville and became a studio musician. For ten years, he toured and recorded with country singer Johnny Cash and continued to play with Cash intermittently over the next thirty. He met Nancy Short, a cellist with a classical music background who was playing in a folk group. He was asked by Bob Dylan to play on the country-folk album Nashville Skyline, then became a member of the house band on Johnny Cash's TV show. Kris Kristofferson, one of the guests, hired Blake to tour with him. Blake recorded with folk singer Joan Baez and appeared on her hit song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". In 1971, he became a member of the bluegrass group Aero-plain, led by multi-instrumentalist John Hartford with fiddler Vassar Clements, but the band didn't last long.
Blake also played dobro on the 1972 album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
In 1972, Blake recorded his first solo album, Home in Sulphur Springs (Rounder, 1972). Soon after his debut, he and Nancy recorded their first album, The Fields of November (Flying Fish, 1974), with Nancy on hillbilly cello. They married in 1975 and performed together for twenty years.
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 Dram/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".
Although known as one of the most prominent steel-string guitar flatpickers, Blake is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. Other instruments he plays include the mandolin, 6-string banjo, fiddle, dobro, banjo and viola. He is known for his loose, right-hand guitar technique, which arose out of his mandolin technique. Also well known is his devotion to 12-fret guitars, including Martin 00s, 000s, D18s, D28s, and Gibsons, like his 1929 12-fret Nick Lucas special.
Blake played on the album Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which won five Grammy Awards, and on the soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year.
Norman and Nancy Blake received Grammy nominations in the Best Traditional Folk Recording category for Blind Dog, Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To, While Passing Along This Way, and The Hobo's Last Ride. In 1986 Norman Blake was chosen Best Multi-Instrumentalist by the readers of Frets magazine.
2) Norman Blake (born 20 October 1965 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter in the Glasgow-based band Teenage Fanclub. He has also recorded as Jad Fair & Norman Blake and been one-half of the duo Jonny.
1) Norman Blake (born … Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with this name;
1) Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938) is a traditional American stringed instrument bluegrass artist and songwriter.
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.
In the 1950s, Blake joined the Dixieland Drifters and performed on radio broadcasts, then joined the Lonesome Travelers. When he was drafted in 1961, he served as an Army radio operator in the Panama Canal Zone. He started a popular band known as the Kobbe Mountaineers. A year later, while he was on leave, he recorded the album Twelve Shades of Bluegrass with the Lonesome Travelers.
After being discharged from the Army, Blake moved to Nashville and became a studio musician. For ten years, he toured and recorded with country singer Johnny Cash and continued to play with Cash intermittently over the next thirty. He met Nancy Short, a cellist with a classical music background who was playing in a folk group. He was asked by Bob Dylan to play on the country-folk album Nashville Skyline, then became a member of the house band on Johnny Cash's TV show. Kris Kristofferson, one of the guests, hired Blake to tour with him. Blake recorded with folk singer Joan Baez and appeared on her hit song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". In 1971, he became a member of the bluegrass group Aero-plain, led by multi-instrumentalist John Hartford with fiddler Vassar Clements, but the band didn't last long.
Blake also played dobro on the 1972 album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
In 1972, Blake recorded his first solo album, Home in Sulphur Springs (Rounder, 1972). Soon after his debut, he and Nancy recorded their first album, The Fields of November (Flying Fish, 1974), with Nancy on hillbilly cello. They married in 1975 and performed together for twenty years.
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 Dram/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".
Although known as one of the most prominent steel-string guitar flatpickers, Blake is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. Other instruments he plays include the mandolin, 6-string banjo, fiddle, dobro, banjo and viola. He is known for his loose, right-hand guitar technique, which arose out of his mandolin technique. Also well known is his devotion to 12-fret guitars, including Martin 00s, 000s, D18s, D28s, and Gibsons, like his 1929 12-fret Nick Lucas special.
Blake played on the album Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which won five Grammy Awards, and on the soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year.
Norman and Nancy Blake received Grammy nominations in the Best Traditional Folk Recording category for Blind Dog, Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To, While Passing Along This Way, and The Hobo's Last Ride. In 1986 Norman Blake was chosen Best Multi-Instrumentalist by the readers of Frets magazine.
2) Norman Blake (born 20 October 1965 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter in the Glasgow-based band Teenage Fanclub. He has also recorded as Jad Fair & Norman Blake and been one-half of the duo Jonny.
Arkansas Traveler
Norman Blake Lyrics
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Hank Williams Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas An old man sat…
Hank Williams/Jerry Rivers Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas An old man sat…
Jerry Garcia %26 David Grisman Hello stranger Hello there stranger Does this, road go all t…
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Hello stranger Hello there stranger Does this, road go all…
Jerry Rivers Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas An old man sat…
Jerry Rivers And The Drifting Cowboys Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas An old man sat…
Jimmie Driftwood Hey farmer! You been livin' here all your life? Not yet. He…
Michelle Shocked Hey farmer! You been livin' here all your life? Not yet. …
SHOCKED Michelle Hey farmer! You been livin' here all your life? Not yet. He…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Norman Blake:
"You Are My Sunshine" The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I…
A Maiden's Prayer Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the st…
Big Rock Candy Mountain One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fire…
Blackberry Blossom Can you tell me what happened to the blossom Blackberry blos…
Church St. Blues Lord I been hangin' out of town in that low…
Crossing No. 9 hoy noo hoy noo hoy noo que se callen no me cuentes mas…
Down Home Summertime Blues Walking down the tracck, crossing all the bridges Just a ram…
Ginseng Sullivan About three miles from the Battele yard From the reverse cur…
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar I'm gonna lay down my old guitar lay down my old…
Green Light on the Southern Standing on a sidetrack at the south end of town On…
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane I got high, lord I got in jail, lord I got…
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (In constant sorrow through his days) I am a man of…
If We Never Meet Again Soon we'll come to the end of life's journey And perhaps…
Last Train From Poor Valley Lucha seh... Fuerte seh... Se tu y nadie maaas Siente queh L…
Little Sadie Went out last night to make a little round I met…
Orphan Annie Riding them planes and hailing cabs been on the road…
Randall Collins 15 dollars is my game, 15 is my draw Randall Collins…
Six White Horses I’m leaving you to worry you off my mind Lord I’m…
Slow Train Through Georgia Down by the county bridge Gondola Road Hauling down to Birin…
Spanish Fandango Ridin' them planes and hailing cabs been on the road…
The Maple On The Hill Here upon the quiet country village stood the maple on…
The Slopes of Beech Mountain The green leaves hang over rusty tin And the porch roof…
You Are My Sunshine The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I…
You Are My Sunshine - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack The other night dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I…
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