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Norman Blake
12+ albums
bluegrassfolkcountrysinger-songwriteramericana
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There is more than one artist with this name; 1) Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938) is a traditional American stringed instrument bluegrass artist and songwriter. Blake was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Sulphur Springs, Alabama. He listened to old-time and country music on the radio by the Carter Family, the Skillet Lickers, Roy Acuff, and the Monroe Brothers (Charlie and Bill Monroe). He learned guitar at age 11 or 12, then mandolin, dobro, and fiddle in his teens. When he was 16, he dropped out of school to play music professionally. In the 1950s, Blake joined the Dixieland Drifters and performed on radio broadcasts, then joined the Lonesome Travelers. When he was drafted in 1961, he served as an Army radio operator in the Panama Canal Zone. He started a popular band known as the Kobbe Mountaineers. A year later, while he was on leave, he recorded the album Twelve Shades of Bluegrass with the Lonesome Travelers. After being discharged from the Army, Blake moved to Nashville and became a studio musician. For ten years, he toured and recorded with country singer Johnny Cash and continued to play with Cash intermittently over the next thirty. He met Nancy Short, a cellist with a classical music background who was playing in a folk group. He was asked by Bob Dylan to play on the country-folk album Nashville Skyline, then became a member of the house band on Johnny Cash's TV show. Kris Kristofferson, one of the guests, hired Blake to tour with him. Blake rec
top songs
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You Are My Sunshine
85,0202I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Instrumental
17,1183I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (instrumental)
16,9864Church St. Blues
14,3485You Are My Sunshine - Soundtrack Version (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?)
11,9806Ginseng Sullivan
11,9757Randall Collins
11,1118I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
10,5839I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Instrumental Soundtrack Version (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
9,72910Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
8,351albums
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Back Home in Sulphur Springs
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack)
The Fields Of November
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O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2
Blake & Rice
Blackberry Blossom
Slow Train Through Georgia
O Brother Where Art Thou