Blind Dog (Norman Blake album)
Encyclopedia
Blind Dog is an album of American
guitarist
Norman Blake
, released in 1988.
Production notes
United States
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guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Norman Blake
Norman Blake (American musician)
Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
, released in 1988.
Reception
In his Allmusic review, critic Jason Ankeny called the album "a fine summation of bluegrass guitarist's Norman Blake's career and aesthetics, a largely instrumental collection of favorites from his own catalog as well as from his influences."Track listing
- "Little Stream of Whiskey" (Traditional) – 3:29
- "Grand Coulee Dam" (Woody GuthrieWoody GuthrieWoodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
) – 3:43 - "Prettiest Little Girl in the Country" (Traditional) – 2:19
- "Billy Gray" (Blake) – 4:08
- "Otto Wood the Bandit" (Traditional) – 2:43
- "Blind Dog" (Blake) – 2:54
- "Everybody Works But Father" (Traditional) – 3:28
- "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" (A. P. CarterA. P. CarterAlvin Pleasant Delaney Carter , best known as A.P. Carter, was an American musician and founding member of The Carter Family, one of the most notable acts in the history of country music.-Life:...
) – 3:49 - "Shallegra" (Blake) – 2:56
- "Old Time Farmer" (Blake) – 4:37
- "Wreck of the Old '97" (Norman Blake, Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
, Bob Johnson) – 3:46 - "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:25
Personnel
- Norman Blake – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
, vocals - Nancy Blake – guitar, celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
, vocals
Production notes
- Bill Wolf – engineer
- Edd Miller – assistant engineer
- Susan Marsh – design
- Senor McGuire – photography