Old Ties
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Old Ties is an album of American
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 musician 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 2002.

Track listing

  1. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 3:49
  2. "Church St. Blues" (Norman Blake) – 2:54
  3. "Sleepy Eyed Joe/Indian Creek" (Traditional) – 3:38
  4. "O'Malley's Tune" (Traditional) – 2:30
  5. "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" (A. P. Carter
    A. P. Carter
    Alvin 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
  6. "Down Home Summertime Blues" (Blake) – 3:42
  7. "Blind Dog" (Blake) – 2:55
  8. "Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast" (Traditional) – 3:35
  9. "Old Ties" (Uncle Dave Macon
    Uncle Dave Macon
    Uncle Dave Macon , born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian...

    ) – 4:26
  10. "Lost Indian" (Traditional) – 3:08
  11. "Ginseng Sullivan" (Traditional) – 3:31
  12. "Obc, No. 3" (Blake) – 5:48
  13. "Prettiest Little Girl in the Country" (Traditional) – 2:17
  14. "Uncle" (Blake) – 4:34
  15. "Bristol in the Bottle" (Blake) – 2:05
  16. "Billy Gray" (Blake) – 4:07
  17. "The Fields of November" (Blake) – 4:06
  18. "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:34
  19. "Randall Collins/Done Gone" (Blake) – 6:06

Personnel

  • Norman Blake – guitar
    Guitar
    The 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...

    , fiddle
    Fiddle
    The 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, cello
    Cello
    The 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...

  • Tony Rice
    Tony Rice
    Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

     – guitar, vocals
  • Doc Watson
    Doc Watson
    Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...

     – guitar
  • James Bryan – fiddle
  • Charlie Collins – fiddle, guitar
  • Ben Pedigoe – banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

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