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Norman Blake - instrumental only?

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gen...@arigatoo.net

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May 14, 2002, 2:15:08 PM5/14/02
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Is there a Norman Blake CD that is just his guitar playing without singing?

Library Guy

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May 14, 2002, 3:08:14 PM5/14/02
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On 14 May 2002 11:15:08 -0700, gen...@arigatoo.net wrote:

>Is there a Norman Blake CD that is just his guitar playing without singing?

No, his guitar *always* sings. What of it?

gen...@arigatoo.net

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May 16, 2002, 11:47:31 AM5/16/02
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dal...@vet.upenn.edu (Library Guy) wrote in message news:<3ce1607...@netnews.upenn.edu>...

> On 14 May 2002 11:15:08 -0700, gen...@arigatoo.net wrote:
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> >Is there a Norman Blake CD that is just his guitar playing without singing?
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> No, his guitar *always* sings. What of it?


Anyone have a second opinion? Any Norman Blake instrumental-only CDs?

Bill Landers

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May 17, 2002, 7:43:50 PM5/17/02
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About as close to an all-instrumental Norman Blake CD as you will get is
"Natasha's Waltz", Rounder CD 11530. This is a compilation from Original
Underground Music from the Mysterious South, Full Moon on the Farm, and The
Rising Fawn String Ensemble (I wish Rounder had released each of these in
their entirety, instead in compilation form). Be advised that this CD is
primarily mandolin oriented, with only a couple of guitar tunes and maybe
one vocal. Virtually all the other Norman Blake CD releases are a
combination of vocals and instrumentals. Hope this helps.
Bill Landers
Onondaga Co., NY

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Robert Palasek

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May 17, 2002, 10:31:19 PM5/17/02
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There's the "Sauerkraut 'N Solar Energy" album, originally distributed
by Flying Fish from 1974. (About the time of the first energy crisis)

I've seen it in the past year in someone's catalogue under
a different name.

Norman Blake, Jethro Burns, Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, David
Holland, Butch Robbins, Tut Taylor. Everybody, it seems, but
John Hartford.
No vocals on side 1. Only one vocal on side 2, McKinley's
Blues (Whitehouse blues). Except for that one, it is all
pretty jazzy instrumentals, not your traditional sounding
Norman Blake guitar work.

Paul

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May 18, 2002, 8:12:47 PM5/18/02
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"Robert Palasek" <bobpa...@attbi.com> wrote in message
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I've got that one - it's on a label called HDS Productions, distributed by
Flying Fish - without a title. There are 8 tracks only, with Blake on 3,
'McKinley's Blues' and 2 others.

--paulS.
Darwin, Australia.


Don Leighty

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May 19, 2002, 3:43:41 PM5/19/02
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Whiskey Before Breakfast is often described as Blake's "guitar album",
even though it has quite a few vocals. Also, the Rounder compilation
"The Norman and Nancy Blake Compact Disc" only contains 3 or 4 vocals
- but again Blake is switching betwen mandolin and guitar a lot.
(This is actually Norman's Lighthouse On The Shore LP, plus most of a
Nancy Blake album.)

I'm also thinking that Blake's two Takoma LPs are guitar-oriented, but
I don't remember them well enough to be sure.

My advice would be to buy a couple and make your own guitar
compilation, if you're inclined that way.

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Best Wishes,
Don Leighty

Turn me on, Redmond. Turn me on, Redmond.

Tim Ausburn

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May 22, 2002, 11:38:08 AM5/22/02
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Try this album, altho listed as Tut Taylor, there is a lot of Norman
Blake guitar on it.
"Friar Tut" on Rounder from 1971, sorry, I don't have the album #.
Tim Ausburn
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