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 | | Blake toured with Earle and recorded an album with him. | | | Blake played mandolin and dobro on the album that I remember mostly for the cover. | | | He released his first solo album, “Home in Sulfur Springs.” The album is listed as one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s top 10 essential albums of all time. |
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http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/08_00/08_23_00/arts_norman_blake.shtml
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| | Special Guests |
| | Blake, a master flatpicker and one of the best traditional guitarists in the world, has, over the years, mastered the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and dobro. | | | Blake met his wife Nancy while he was playing with a group called Exit-In: she was a member of Natchez Trace, who opened a show for Exit-In. | | | With harpist Judith Kogan, she has two recordings of Britten's Folksongs of the British Isles and songs of Fauré scheduled for release later this year on Centaur Records. |
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http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20011013/guests.shtml
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| | American Profile: 1/13/2002 - 1/19/2002: An Ordinary Guy Playing Extraordinary Music |
| | Blake performed the CD version of You Are My Sunshine, cut a guitar rendition of I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, and provided instrumentals on several other tracks. | | | Six of his records were nominated for Grammy awards in the traditional folk category, and he became known as one of the world’s best acoustic guitar flat-pickers and a master on Dobro, mandolin, viola, Hawaiian guitar, and fiddle. | | | Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Blake grew up in Sulphur Springs, Ga., and Rising Fawn, listening to the sounds of live radio, the well-worn records of Roy Acuff and the Carter Family, and the hillbilly plucking of his kinfolk. |
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http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20020113/20020113se_1731.asp
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| | Norman Blake in Concert November 3 |
| | Norman Blake's album Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm, was recently nominated for "Best Traditional Folk Album" at the 2001 Grammy Awards—the sixth nomination of his long career. | | | Blake is featured on two tracks on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, which went to number one on the country charts. | | | The concert is the second in the series "American Roots: Traditional Music from the Rural South." Tickets are $20 ($18 for members and students). |
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http://www.clarkart.edu/make_a_visit/press_releases/content.cfm?ID=124
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| | Library of Congress American Folklife Center Announces 2004 Concert Series |
| | Blake is one of the most respected musicians in the field of country music. | | | The American Indian Music and Dance Troupe is directed by Tom Mauchahty-Ware, a Kiowa whose family has presented the traditions of the Plains peoples since the 1930s. | | | The American Folklife Center's annual concert series, "Homegrown 2004: The Music of America," opens on April 15 with an 8 p.m. |
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http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2004/04-026.html
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| | Q&A: Norman Blake (August 2002) |
| | Norman: We made the album one day during the Bandwagonesque recording session. | | | Norman: Slik for me were more of a punk rock outfit. | | | Norman: I think it would have to be "He'd Be a Diamond." It's such a fantastic song. |
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http://teenagefansite.furrycookie.ca/qanda/norman2.html
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| | The Blakes have received two Grammy nominations for their work: in 1990, their album Blind Dog was nominated for Best Traditional Folk Recording and in 1993, their album Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To was nominated for Best Traditional Folk Album. | | | Over the years, Blake has mastered the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and dobro. | | | It's an American folk masterpiece." Their latest CD is The Hobo's Last Ride (Shanachie Records). |
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http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19961019/guests.shtml
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| | Norman Blake Albums |
| | Like consummate musicians, for their first album together Norman Blake and Tony Rice largely ignored flash and speed in favor of songs and mood. | | | Blake & Rice #2 is every bit as enjoyable as the guitarists' first duets albums, featuring an astonishing array of flat-picking and harmonies. | | | Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc combines Norman's Lighthouse on the Shore and Nancy's Grand Junction on one 21-track compact disc, offering neophytes a good introduction the duo's distinctive style of acoustic country and bluegrass. |
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http://www.mp3.com/Norman-Blake/artists/465/discography.html
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| | CMT.com : John Hartford : Norman and Nancy Blake's Rich Musical Journey |
| | With an innovative approach on musical interplay and lyrical content, the album largely inspired the "newgrass" music movement in the early '70s. | | | At age 66, Norman Blake continues to make music while downplaying his reputation as one of the world's premier acoustic guitar stylists. | | | The band consisted of Hartford on banjo, Blake on guitar, Tut Taylor on Dobro and Vassar Clements on fiddle. |
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http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1488641/06232004/hartford_john.jhtml
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| | 'Cold Mountain' Musician Tim Eriksen To Perform At UI Oct. 22 |
| | American folk genres, Bosnian traditional and popular music and underground rock are the tip of an iceberg of musical experience. | | | Eriksen is a founding member of Cordelia's Dad, Northampton Harmony and Zabe i Babe -- bands with which he has toured the world, made dozens of recordings and explored a tremendous range of musical styles. | | | The performance "Tim Eriksen: Up from Cold Mountain," will consist primarily of 19th century American folk songs like those heard in the movie and will include discussion of the oral folk tradition. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/october/102004cold-mountain.html
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| | Music ~ The Rural Heritage Festival ~ June 18th, 2005 ~ Lisle, IL |
| | Known as a “musician’s musician”, his praises have been sung by everyone from Ben Harper to Brit guitar gods Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor. | | | Since 1974, Blake has recorded old-time music frequently with his wife Nancy, and six of their albums have earned Grammy nominations in the Best Traditional/Folk category. | | | John Hasbrouck burst onto the national acoustic music scene with the release of his critically-acclaimed debut cd, Ice Cream – cited by Acoustic Guitar as one of the Top CDs of 2002. |
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http://www.ruralfest.com/music.html
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| | After that band dissolved, Norman toured with John Hartford as his accompanist for 1 1/2 years, during which time he recorded his first solo album, Home in Sulphur Springs. | | | Along with country and western sessions, Norman recorded with Bob Dylan on The Nashville Skyline album. | | | He was a member of Kris Kristofferson's first road group, playing guitar and dobro, and did a seasonal tour with Joan Baez, playing mandolin, guitar, and dobro; Norman recorded with both groups. |
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http://www.flatpick.com/Pages/Featured_Artist/norman.html
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| | American Folk Music - Tony Bird -> Bob Brozman |
| | Norman is one of the finest guitarists, fiddlers and singers of American folk. | | | Great stuff - Norman and Nancy are among our foremost interpreters of traditional music from the American south. | | | 13 tracks, 41 min., recommended The digital reissue of Brozman's identically-titled LP from 1981, a musical celebration of this one-time Santa Cruz, California street musician's love of the National Steel guitar and the music of the 1920's. |
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http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/AMERICANFOLK/americanfolk_b2.htm
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| | riverfronttimes.com Music Songs of Experience 2001-05-02 |
| | He titled one album Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South, an indication that, for Blake, the sound of a guitar and mandolin winding their way through a tune of unknown history and origin somehow lies at the heart of the enigma that is rural America. | | | He is to old-time string music what the Library of Congress is to history; he is to the acoustic guitar what Wassily Kandinsky is to color; he has brought to the tradition of American song what Frank Lloyd Wright brought to the building of homes: the endless possibilities of a clear vision. | | | I'm very conscious of trying to be a singer and guitar player who can do a song that's not fancy but which can be complete. |
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http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2001-05-02/music.html
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| | Articles - Carter Family |
| | Their music had a profound impact on later bluegrass, country, pop and rock musicians, as well on the as the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. | | | They were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 and they were given the nickname "The First Family of Country Music." In 1988, the Carter Family was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and received its Award for the song "Can the Circle Be Unbroken". | | | The Carter Family was a rural country music group that performed and recorded between 1927 and 1943. |
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http://www.sidepoint.com/articles/The_Carter_Family
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| | WU Libraries - Gaylord Music Library - Necrology - 2000 |
| | Morrill, Lois, American organist and piano accompanist, d. | | | Lucas, Wilmer F., American music writer, producer and disc jockey, d. | | | Fryer, Kenwood Bobbie Lee, American musician and pharmacist, d. |
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| | WOUB Online - Audiosyncrasies - Interview with Norman Blake |
| | In the 50's, he was drafted into the military but continued to play the music he loved. | | | Today, he continues to perform old-time country gems as well as original songs that sound as timeless as those in the traditional repertoire. | | | Soundtrack followed by an appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall, Norman continues to garner new listeners while never disappointing long-time fans of old-time music. |
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http://woub.org/sync/feature-blake.html
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| | Norman Blake (American musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Blake has produced 32 albums, sometimes teaming with Tony Rice, and at other times with his wife, Nancy Blake. | | | Blake played on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and contributed to the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers film, O Brother Where Art Thou? | | | He has recorded on the Rounder, Flying Fish, Country, Takoma, Shanachie, Western Jubilee, Red House, and Plectrafone labels. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Blake_(American_musician)
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| | Watson was a masterful singer with a repertoire that drew from virtually all styles of American music, but it was his guitar playing that first made him a star. | | | Watson introduced a style of picking the melody of fiddle tunes on the guitar, practically inventing the idea of a lead guitarist in traditional country and bluegrass music. | | | From 1964 through 1985, Doc Watson was joined on stage and recordings by his son Merle, a first-rate flatpicker, slide guitarist and banjo player. |
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| | Jim plays in the styles of jazz, bluegrass, American folk music, swing, blues, mainstream jazz, contemporary jazz, traditional jazz, old-time, hillbilly, rock and roll, western swing, country, country and western, country blues, classical and other. | | | Kanas is an American Roots Musician and jazz guitar improvisationalist. | | | As a visiting artist he implements American Folk Music and/or American roots programs which trace the development of American music by its ethnical influences. |
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| | Celebrity Research Lists - Famous Dropouts, Celebrity Dropouts |
| | Berry Gordy........self-made multimillionaire American businesssman; music producer; founder of "Motown Records"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee; American author (equivalency diploma). | | | Bill Haley.....rock star; founding member of the band "Bill Haley and His Comets; recorded famous rendition of the song "Rock Around the Clock; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. | | | Chet Atkins.........country music star; Country Music Hall of Fame inductee; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee; American author. |
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| | Scott O'Malley & Associates - Artist Representation |
| | Sierra is a 12-year-old mandolin wizard who has performed on the Grand Ole Opry and PBS’s All-Star Bluegrass Celebration who recently released her first independent release, Angel Mountain, with her brother Cody. | | | They will be joined by Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, Tim Eriksen, and Reeltime Travelers from the “Cold Mountain” soundtrack as well as Ollabelle (a sextet who draws their inspiration from nineteenth and early-to-mid-twentieth century rural American music) and Sierra and Cody Hull. | | | "Down From The Mountain was an extraordinary night of music," said Burnett, "and we are going deeper into this exploration of traditional American music with the artists and songs from Cold Mountain. |
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http://www.somagency.com/normanblake/news.html
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| | RootsWorld column: Rootin' Around by Kevin Roe , #51, Aug/Sept 1998 |
| | I've been rifling through used LP bins for years trying to piece together the original '70s Capitol recordings of this African American Oklahoma country stylist whose quavering honky tonk vibrato bears more than a little hint of his love for Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard. | | | Her solo debut, Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts (Rounder), is sure to earn her the individual recognition her songwriting and soaring vocals have long deserved. | | | MusicHound Folk doesn't purport to be the definitive history of bluegrass, string-band music, the singer/songwriter movement, et al. |
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http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/rootin.html
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| | Norman Blake Old Time Music Festival |
| | All right, you'll try 'instrumental musician,' but then you discover that he can sing a pretty good song, to boot. | | | A typical concert will include some of everything mentioned above, as well as some musical forms that might best be described as representing whatever Blake is hearing in his mind at the time. | | | 'Country musician' comes to mind as a good way to define him, but about the time you make that decision, his music changes directions and takes on a more serious, almost semi-classical quality that gets close to some forms of Early American chamber music. |
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| | Review - Norman Blake: Old Ties |
| | Rounder has limited its Rounder Heritage series to 30 releases, in honor of the label's 30th anniversary, so for any artist in their extensive catalog of great music to get one all to himself is a significant tribute. | | | With over a dozen Rounder and Flying Fish releases to draw from, putting this together couldn't have been easy, since every time Blake tunes his guitar something wonderful happens, but producers Ken Irwin and Joel Stein have done a remarkable job. | | | soundtrack, Blake seems to have been everywhere that matters in American roots music for over 40 years, and the music on Old Ties provides an ample demonstration of the reason why. |
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http://www.cosmik.com/aa-july02/reviews/review_norman_blake.html
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| | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Information From Answers.com |
| | The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since the original founding in California in 1965. | | | The group's membership has had at least a dozen iterations over the years, including five years, between Dirt, Silver and Gold (1976) and Let's Go (1983), when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band. |
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| | Tunes by Old Time Country Musician Norman Blake arminhammer.com |
| | This product was released to the public on November, 1998. | | | The Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar is part of our discount Book catalog. | | | Used Tunes by Old Time Country Musician Norman Blake are in stock for only $15.99. |
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http://arminhammer.com/amazon/asin.078664088X.Book_Tunes_by_Old_Time_Country_Musician_Norman_Blake.html
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| | African American Adult Titles List |
| | Studying contemporaneous writers and thinkers, Malcomson tracks the creation of American racial caste beginning in colonial America, and brings his story right up to the present. | | | Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott (Feb., $24.95) by Horace Tapscott tells the story of this jazz great who also played a leading role in civil rights activism in Los Angeles. | | | Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation (Jan., paper $15) by Eric Nisenson, foreword by Sonny Rollins, tells the life story of one of the legends of modern jazz. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/adult01.htm
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| | Norman Blake DVDs |
| | Consummate musician Norman Blake is joined by his wife Nancy in this musical tour through early American country music, from old-time vocals to full instrumentals. | | | Blake gives advice on tuning, phrasing, ornaments, double-stops, tremolos, drones, and much more. | | | List: All Videos by Norman Blake, Video Tapes by Norman Blake |
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http://www.fattvideos.com/DVDs_by/22934/Norman_Blake
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| | CBS 11: Today In History - March 10, 2005 |
| | Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) is 42. | | | Five years ago: Pope John Paul II approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. | | | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
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| | Articles - September 18 |
| | 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer | | | 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever turning the sign into a symbol for the paradox of the American film industry. | | | 1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. |
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