Norman Blake, Flower from the Fields of Alabama - 1h 8m 30s

Tracks & Durations

1. Salty Dog	4:21
2. Bonaparte's Grand March	5:20
3. The Slopes Of Beech Mountain	3:10
4. Sitting On Top Of The World	6:22
5. Radio Joe	3:57
6. Chasin' Rainbows	3:33
7. Flower From The Fields of Alabama	4:07
8. Texas Gales	4:01
9. All Go Hungry Hash House	3:48
10. So Tired	5:11
11. The Gambler's Dying Words	2:50
12. Little Bunch Of Roses	3:16
13. Eastbound Freight Train	3:33
14. The Burial Of Wild Bill	3:23
15. T.A.G. Railroad Rag	6:10
16. If We Never Meet Again (This Side Of Heaven)	5:19

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Review

Norman Blake is probably best known as a bluegrass guitar picker, but the music on Flower from the Fields of Alabama shows he is really a master of the early ballads, blues, and Appalachian fiddle tunes that Bill Monroe combined to create the high lonesome sound. On instrumentals like the fiddle tune "Texas Gales" and "Bonaparte's Grand March," which despite its bombastic title is played as a delicate mandolin solo, Blake demonstrates his instrumental virtuosity by emphasizing taste, tone, and phrasing over rapid-fire picking. Blake is a singer in the "ragged but right" tradition, and his dry delivery is well suited to a wide range of material from the slightly lewd "Salty Dog" to the wistful "Chasin' Rainbows" and the maudlin pieties of "The Dying Gambler's Last Words." The music on Flower from the Fields of Alabama doesn't push the envelope, but that's exactly why it's so charming. You get the feeling that Norman Blake released this music on CD only because he couldn't find a record company to put it out on a 78-rpm record. --Michael Simmons

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