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Norman Blake
Live at Mccabe's
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Introduction By Nancy Covey - Norman Blake,
2. Nine Pound Hammer - Norman Blake, Travis, Merle
3. Sweet Heaven When I Die - Norman Blake, Grant, Claud
4. Introducing Nancy Blake - Norman Blake,
5. Border Widow - Norman Blake, Blake, Norman [1]
6. "G" Medley: Green Leaf Fancy/Fields of November/Fort Smith - Norman Blake, Blake, Norman [1]
7. Dry Grass on the High Fields - Norman Blake, Blake, Norman [1]
8. John Hardy - Norman Blake, Carter, A.P.
9. Arkansas Traveler - Norman Blake, Christian, M.
10. Medley: Bully of the Town/Bonaparte's Retreat/Richland Avenue Rag - Norman Blake, traditional
11. Harvey's Reel - Norman Blake, Blake, Norman [1]

CD Details

All Artists: Norman Blake
Title: Live at Mccabe's
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Takoma
Release Date: 7/20/1999
Album Type: Live
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Classic Country, Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 025218650625, 029667985024, 722397275211, 722397275242

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Records like this one explain why Norman Blake fanatics usually creep up to the side of the stage just to get a glimpse of Blake's fingers in action. Apparently, most of those fanatics belong to the Flatpick-L Internet mailing list, because this reissue was actually inspired by an intense Flatpick-L e-mail campaign! As his career progressed, Blake tended to de-emphasize his incredible flat-picking prowess, but on this 1976 date at the famed Santa Monica venue (Blake's first-ever West Coast appearance), he gives the people exactly what they want. Just when you think the master can't top his last chorus, he does just that with an incredible arsenal of rippling runs. Wife (now ex-wife) Nancy joins him for a few stately guitar-cello duets, but it's the solo-guitar pieces that truly amaze. Those Net geeks sure know how to pick 'em! --Marc Greilsamer

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CD Reviews

One of the finest flatpicking albums ever

09/22/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is up in the rarified air of the very finest flatpicking albums ever recorded; in the same class as Dan Crary's "Guitar" or "Doc Watson On Stage". The playing is sensational, unbelievable. This is Norman Blake with flatpicking as his primary interest, unlike later material which focused on ensembles and then on recreating old time music. The musicianship is dizzying; experimental, vibrant, flashy, lyrical, audacious; it doesn't have the polish of a studio album, but has a wonderful live ambience. It is astonishing what a real master can do with well-known material. This album will rightly be one of the standards by which flatpicking is measured."

Great work

Don Peppe | 02/13/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Nine pound hammer is absolutely a masterpiece for acoustic guitar and a very hard piece to play. Overlooked guitarist"