Norman Blake (bluegrass guitarist)

~ Person

Relationships

member of:	The Nashville A-Team
original member of:	Steve Earle & The Train Band
married:	Nancy Blake

Wikipedia:	en: Norman Blake (American musician) [info]
Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/536802 [info]
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Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000387352 [info]
VIAF ID:	85762376 [info]
Wikidata:	Q1514469 [info]
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Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
	Wreck of the Old 97 (live, 1969-02-24: San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA, USA)			Johnny Cash	2:05
	instruments
1963-09-18 – 1963-09-19	I Still Miss Someone (studio, September 1963)		resonator guitar [dobro]	Johnny Cash	2:36
1963-09-18 – 1963-09-19	The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 2		resonator guitar [dobro]	Johnny Cash	2:29
1964-03-04	Troublesome Waters (stereo)		resonator guitar [dobro]	Johnny Cash	3:52
1966-01-11	The Frozen Logger		resonator guitar [dobro]	Johnny Cash	2:22
1966-07-06	Bottom of the Mountain		resonator guitar [dobro]	Johnny Cash	2:28
1969-02-14	Country Pie (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)		guitar	Bob Dylan	1:27
1969-02-16	I Threw It All Away (alternate version, Nashville Skyline) (take 1)		guitar	Bob Dylan	2:25
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Flint Hill Special		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	2:12
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Honky Tonk Blues		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	2:23
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Honky Tonkin’		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	2:27
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Lost Highway		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	3:48
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Nashville Blues		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	3:16
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	Togary Mountain		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	2:29
1971-08-06 – 1971-08-11	You Are My Flower		resonator guitar [dobro]	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	3:36
1971-08-12	I Saw the Light		resonator guitar [dobro]	Earl Scruggs	3:45
1972-01	Wabash Cannonball		resonator guitar [dobro]	Brother Oswald	1:38
1972-06-05	Big Foot		guitar	Johnny Cash	2:38
1972-12-19	Blackberry Blossom		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:54
1972-12-19	Cedar Hill		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:14
1972-12-19	Cumberland Gap		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:16
1972-12-19	Dusty Miller		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	3:10
1972-12-19	Pick Away		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	1:49
1972-12-19	Snowflake Reel		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:30
1972-12-19	Turkey in the Straw		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:28
1972-12-19	Vic’s Ride		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:21
1972-12-21	Jean		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:45
1972-12-21	Jordan’s Hornpipe		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	2:41
1972-12-21	Little Dave		guitar [lead guitar]	Vic Jordan	1:48
1979-06-22 – 1979-06-24	Black Mountain Rag		guitar	Doc & Merle Watson	5:45
1979-06-22 – 1979-06-24	Randall Collins / Done Gone		guitar	Norman Blake	6:02
1979	Flight to DC		guitar	Bob Black	2:37
1979	Jerusalem Ridge		guitar	Bob Black	4:00
1979	Ladies on the Steamboat		guitar	Bob Black	2:35
1979	Nervous Breakdown		guitar	Bob Black	1:17
1979	Over the Waterfall		guitar	Bob Black	3:01
1979	Star of the County Down		guitar	Bob Black	6:50
1979	Staten Island Hornpipe		guitar	Bob Black	2:21
1979	The Flowers of Edinburgh		guitar	Bob Black	3:00
1981-02-19	Evening Prayer Blues		guitar	Bill Monroe	3:15
1981-02-19	Lady of the Blue Ridge		guitar	Bill Monroe	2:39
1981-02-19	Melissa’s Waltz for J.B.		guitar	Bill Monroe	2:43
1981-02-19	My Last Days on Earth		guitar	Bill Monroe	4:38
1981-04-07	My Last Days on Earth		guitar	Bill Monroe	4:38
1984-10	Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase		guitar	Norman Blake	2:54
1985	Farewell Trion		guitar	Bob Carlin & James Bryan	2:41
1990	Blackberry Blossom		guitar	Norman Blake & Tony Rice	3:15
1992-08	Last Train From Poor Valley		resonator guitar [dobro]	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:47
1992-08	Last Train From Poor Valley		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:47
1992-08	Old Mother Flanagan		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:06
1992-08	The Grave of Bonaparte		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1992-08	The Grave of Bonaparte		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine / Going Down the Valley		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:44
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	God's Radio Phone		Hawaiian guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	God's Radio Phone		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Hangin' Dog		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	2:50
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	He's Passing This Way		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:14
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	I'm Going to Leave Old Dixie		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	4:12
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Old Stepstone		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:54
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Old Stepstone		mandolin	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:54
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	On & On & On		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:08
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Sweet Freedom		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:48
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Sweet Heaven		Hawaiian guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	2:28
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Sweet Heaven		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	2:28
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	The Fate of Talmage Osborne		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:38
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	The Fate of Talmage Osborne		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake	3:38
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	The Greenwood Tree		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake	1:55
2000-01	All Go Hungry Hash House		fiddle	Norman Blake	3:51
2000-01	All Go Hungry Hash House		slide guitar	Norman Blake	3:51
2000-01	All Go Hungry Hash House		guitar	Norman Blake	3:51
2000-01	Bonaparte's Grand March		mandolin	Norman Blake	5:22
2000-01	Chasin' Rainbows		mandolin	Norman Blake	3:36
2000-01	Eastbound Freight Train		guitar	Norman Blake	3:36
2000-01	Flower From the Fields of Alabama		guitar	Norman Blake	4:09
2000-01	If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven)		guitar	Norman Blake	5:20
2000-01	Little Bunch of Roses		guitar	Norman Blake	3:18
2000-01	Radio Joe		mandolin	Norman Blake	3:59
2000-01	Radio Joe		guitar	Norman Blake	3:59
2000-01	Salty Dog		guitar	Norman Blake	4:23
2000-01	Sitting on Top of the World		guitar [low guitar]	Norman Blake	6:25
2000-01	So Tired		mandolin	Norman Blake	5:14
2000-01	T.A.G. Railroad Rag		mandolin	Norman Blake	6:12
2000-01	Texas Gales		guitar	Norman Blake	4:04
2000-01	The Burial of Wild Bill		guitar	Norman Blake	3:26
2000-01	The Gambler's Dying Words		guitar	Norman Blake	2:52
2000-01	The Slopes of Beech Mountain		slide guitar	Norman Blake	3:13
2000-01	The Slopes of Beech Mountain		guitar	Norman Blake	3:13
2000-12	Restless Farewell		guitar	Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	5:35
2013	The Faded Coat of Blue		guitar	Norman Blake, Nancy Blake & James Bryan	3:19
	"G" Medley		fiddle	Norman Blake	5:47
	(Carter Girls intro) Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea		acoustic guitar	June Carter Cash	3:28
	(Little Junie intro) Temptation		acoustic guitar	June Carter Cash	2:26
	Ajimina		guitar [1st guitar]	Norman Blake	2:09
	Alcatraz		acoustic guitar	June Carter Cash	3:35
	Amber Tresses		guitar	Charles Sawtelle	3:20
	Angel Is the Devil		mandolin	Steve Earle	2:12
	Aragon Mill		guitar	Hazel Dickens	3:04
	Are You From Dixie?		guitar	Norman Blake	3:40
	Arkansas Traveler		guitar	Norman Blake	2:55
	Arkansas Traveler		guitar	Norman Blake and Tut Taylor	2:30
	As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (reprise)		acoustic guitar	Nancy Blake, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	3:29
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	performed
	I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (instrumental)			Norman Blake	4:29
	produced
	Blackberry Blossom			Norman Blake & Tony Rice	3:15
	I’m Free Again			Norman Blake	3:36
	Just Tell Them That You Saw Me			Norman Blake	2:38
	Montcalm and Wolfe			Norman Blake	6:25
	My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains			Norman Blake	4:39
	Old Joe’s March			Norman Blake	2:38
	Restless Farewell			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	5:35
	Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase			Norman Blake	2:54
	The Dying Cowboy			Norman Blake	3:55
	Three Leaves of Shamrock			Norman Blake	3:28
	Time			Norman Blake	2:54
	When the Roses Bloom			Norman Blake	4:03
	vocals
1979-06-22 – 1979-06-24	Randall Collins / Done Gone			Norman Blake	6:02
1992-08	Last Train From Poor Valley			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:47
1992-08	The Grave of Bonaparte			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	God's Radio Phone			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:39
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	He's Passing This Way			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:14
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	I'm Going to Leave Old Dixie			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:12
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Old Stepstone			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:54
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	On & On & On			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:08
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Sweet Freedom			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:48
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	Sweet Heaven			Norman & Nancy Blake	2:28
1994-06-09 – 1994-06-12	The Fate of Talmage Osborne			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:38
2000-01	All Go Hungry Hash House			Norman Blake	3:51
2000-01	Chasin' Rainbows			Norman Blake	3:36
2000-01	Eastbound Freight Train			Norman Blake	3:36
2000-01	Flower From the Fields of Alabama			Norman Blake	4:09
2000-01	If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven)			Norman Blake	5:20
2000-01	Little Bunch of Roses			Norman Blake	3:18
2000-01	Radio Joe			Norman Blake	3:59
2000-01	Salty Dog			Norman Blake	4:23
2000-01	So Tired			Norman Blake	5:14
2000-01	The Burial of Wild Bill			Norman Blake	3:26
2000-01	The Gambler's Dying Words			Norman Blake	2:52
2000-01	The Slopes of Beech Mountain			Norman Blake	3:13
2000-12	Restless Farewell			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	5:35
	Amber Tresses			Charles Sawtelle	3:20
	Are You From Dixie?			Norman Blake	3:40
	Billy Gray			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:07
	Billy Gray			Norman Blake	4:24
	Black Bart			Norman Blake	4:23
	Black Jack David			Norman & Nancy Blake feat. Tim O’Brien	2:56
	Blake’s Railroad Blues			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	8:45
	Blind Dog			Norman & Nancy Blake	2:54
	Blue Ridge Mountain Blues			Norman Blake	2:45
	Church Street Blues			Norman Blake	2:54
	Columbus Stockade Blues			Norman Blake	3:26
	Columbus Stockade Blues			Norman Blake	3:32
	Diamonds in the Rough			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:03
	Down Home Summertime Blues			Norman Blake	3:43
	Down to the River to Pray		additional	Alison Krauss	2:56
	Drums			Norman & Nancy Blake, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	6:00
	Everybody Works but Father			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:27
	Farewell Francisco Madero			Norman Blake	4:54
	Fifty Miles of Elbow Room			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:49
	Forsaken Love			Charles Sawtelle	3:54
	Ginseng Sullivan			Norman Blake	3:32
	Grady Forester’s Store and Cotton Gin			Norman Blake	5:00
	Grand Coulee Dam			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:41
	Graycoat Soldiers			Norman Blake	3:14
	Hello Stranger			Norman Blake	3:07
	I Cannot Call Her Mother			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	3:46
	I Was Born 4,000 Years Ago			Norman Blake	3:00
	I'd Rather Be an Old Time Christian			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:21
	I’m Free Again			Norman Blake	3:36
	If I Lose, I Don't Care			Norman Blake	3:01
	In the Spring of the Year			Norman Blake	4:16
	Introducing Nancy Blake		spoken vocals	Norman Blake	1:20
	John Hardy			Norman Blake	5:41
	Joseph Thompson Hare on the Old Natchez Trace			Norman Blake	4:06
	Just Tell Them That You Saw Me			Norman Blake	2:38
	Last Train From Poor Valley			Norman Blake	3:42
	Little Bessie			Norman Blake and Tut Taylor	3:07
	Little Joe			Norman Blake	2:50
	Little Matty Groves			Norman & Nancy Blake	7:04
	Little Stream of Whiskey			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:28
	Lonesome Jenny			Norman Blake	7:21
	Lord Won’t You Help Me			Norman Blake	2:51
	Montcalm and Wolfe			Norman Blake	6:25
	Mr. Garfield			Norman & Nancy Blake	7:23
	My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains			Norman Blake	4:39
	My Name Is Morgan (But It Ain't J.P.)			Norman Blake	3:08
	My Old Home on the Green Mountain Side			Norman Blake	2:59
	Nashville Blues			Norman Blake	3:43
	Nashville Blues			Norman Blake	3:48
	Nine Pound Hammer			Norman Blake	4:19
	Nobody's Business			Norman Blake	3:10
	Nobody's Business			Norman Blake	3:16
	Old Grey Mare			Norman Blake	3:31
	Old Time Farmer			Norman & Nancy Blake	4:37
	Only a Bunch of Violets			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	4:34
	Otto Wood the Bandit			Norman & Nancy Blake	2:43
	Peacock’s Feather			Norman Blake	1:42
	Poor Ellen Smith			Norman Blake	3:26
	Railroad Blues			Norman Blake	8:02
	Rake and the Rambling Blade			Norman Blake	3:01
	Randall Collins			Norman Blake	1:56
	Rise When the Rooster Crows			Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko	3:14
	Silence or Tears			Norman & Nancy Blake	3:20
	Six White Horses			Norman Blake	5:01
	Slow Train Through Georgia			Norman Blake	4:09
	Southern Railroad Blues			Norman Blake	3:16
	Streamlined Cannonball			Norman Blake	5:00
	Sweet Heaven			Norman Blake	4:21
	Sweet Heaven When I Die			Norman Blake	4:36
	Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry		background vocals	John Hartford	3:28
	The Bonny Bunch of Roses			Norman & Nancy Blake, Boys of the Lough, James & Rachel Bryan	5:57
	The Dying Cowboy			Norman Blake	3:55
	The Electric Telephone			Norman Blake and Tut Taylor	2:51
	The Highland Light			Norman Blake	5:16
	The Incident at Condra’s Switch			Norman Blake	3:48
	The Keeper of the Government Light on the River			Norman Blake	5:00
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	instruments
1969-05-03	50th Anniversary Collection: 1969		guitar	Bob Dylan
1972-01	Brother Oswald		mandolin	Brother Oswald
1972-01	Brother Oswald		guitar	Brother Oswald
	2		guitar	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	2		mandolin	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	America		banjo	Johnny Cash
	America		guitar	Johnny Cash
	American III: Solitary Man		guitar	Johnny Cash
	American III: Solitary Man		guitar	Johnny Cash
	American III: Solitary Man (Reissue)		guitar	Johnny Cash
	American III: Solitary Man		guitar	Johnny Cash
	American III: Solitary Man		guitar	Johnny Cash
	Back Home in Sulphur Springs		resonator guitar [dobro]	Norman & Nancy Blake
	Back Home in Sulphur Springs		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake
	Back Home in Sulphur Springs		mandolin	Norman & Nancy Blake
	Back Home in Sulphur Springs		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake
	Blake & Rice		guitar	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice		mandolin	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice		guitar	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice		mandolin	Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		resonator guitar [National resonator guitar]	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		guitar	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		banjolin [mandolin banjo]	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		banjitar [5 string guitar banjo]	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		fiddle	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		mandolin	Norman Blake
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe		Hawaiian guitar	Norman Blake
	Morning Bugle		mandolin	John Hartford
	Morning Bugle		guitar	John Hartford
	Morning Bugle		resonator guitar [dobro]	John Hartford
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns		guitar	Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, David Holland & Jethro Burns
	Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns		mandocello	Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, David Holland & Jethro Burns
	Orange Blossom Special		guitar	Johnny Cash
	Orange Blossom Special (Remastered)	Norman L. Blake	guitar	Johnny Cash
	The Hobo's Last Ride		mandolin	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		fiddle	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		viola	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		banjitar [6 string guitar banjo]	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		resonator guitar [National resonator guitar]	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride		slide guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Morning Glory Ramblers		resonator guitar [dobro]	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Morning Glory Ramblers		guitar	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Morning Glory Ramblers		mandolin	Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Old Post Office		guitar	Tut Taylor
	performed
	Nashville Skyline			Bob Dylan
	Will the Circle Be Unbroken		additional and guest	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
	produced
	2			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe			Norman Blake
	Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To			Norman & Nancy Blake
	While Passing Along This Way			Norman & Nancy Blake
	vocals
	2			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Back Home in Sulphur Springs			Norman & Nancy Blake
	Blake & Rice			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Blake & Rice			Norman Blake & Tony Rice
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe			Norman Blake
	The Hobo's Last Ride			Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Morning Glory Ramblers			Norman & Nancy Blake
	The Old Post Office			Tut Taylor
	arranged
	Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over (Cold Mountain)
	composed
	Back in Yonder's World
	Billy Gray
	Bright Days
	Castleberry's March
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe
	Church Street Blues
	Dry Grass on the High Fields
	Ginseng Sullivan
	Green Light on the Southern
	Harvey's Reel
	Last Train From Poor Valley
	Lincoln’s Funeral Train
	Lord Won't You Help Me
	My Old Home on the Green Mountain Side
	New Brick Road
	New Chance Blues
	Northern Winds
	Orphan Annie
	Randall Collins
	Ridge Road Gravel
	Slow Train Through Georgia
	The Old Brown Case
	Thebes
	Uncle Sam
	White Oak Swamp
	lyrics
	Billy Gray
	Chattanooga Sugar Babe
	Church Street Blues
	Ginseng Sullivan
	Green Light on the Southern
	Last Train From Poor Valley
	Lincoln’s Funeral Train
	Lord Won't You Help Me
	My Old Home on the Green Mountain Side
	Orphan Annie
	Randall Collins
	Slow Train Through Georgia
	Uncle Sam

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