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	Norman Blake (American musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American folk instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer.
		When Norman was one year old, his family moved to Sulphur Springs, Georgia where he was raised.
		Although competent on the mandolin, fiddle, and banjo, Blake is mainly known for his guitar flatpicking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Blake_(American_musician) (169 words)

	Norman Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At that time, Norman was drafted and stationed in the Panama Canal as a radio operator.
		Upon returning to the United States, Norman taught guitar to as many as 150 students weekly, and played the fiddle in a country and western dance band three to four nights a week.
		Norman and Nancy married and recorded and toured together from 1974 through 1996.
	users.townsqr.com /arts/norman1.htm (718 words)

	Special Guests
		Blake, a master flatpicker and one of the best traditional guitarists in the world, has, over the years, mastered the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and dobro.
		Blake met his wife Nancy while he was playing with a group called Exit-In: she was a member of Natchez Trace, who opened a show for Exit-In.
		Blake also participated in the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed film, O Brother Where Art Thou, and the summer 2001 sold-out O Brother show at Carnegie Hall launched the release of his latest CD, Flower From the Fields of Alabama (Shanachie Records).
	prairiehome.publicradio.org /programs/20011013/guests.shtml (686 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| Music \| Songs of Experience \| 2001-05-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norman Blake: He is to old-time string music what the Library of Congress is to history.
		Blake was born March 10, 1938, in Chattanooga, and the Tennessee-Georgia border remains his home.
		Though Blake is best known for his guitar playing, he is skilled, and often riveting, on the mandolin, fiddle and banjo.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /Issues/2001-05-02/music/music.html (1312 words)

	The Smoky Mountain News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But however Blake is categorized (don’t dare call him “bluegrass”), he has remained at the forefront of traditional American music for three decades and has earned a reputation as a flatpicking guitarist without peer.
		Blake’s onstage demeanor is one of quiet concentration, and his long hair, beard, moustache and spectacles give him the appearance of one you would consult for wisdom.
		Blake has recently played on June Carter Cash’s solo album and he has completed sessions for what he hopes will be the next Johnny Cash album.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/08_00/08_23_00/arts_norman_blake.shtml (1891 words)

	'Cold Mountain' Musician Tim Eriksen To Perform At UI Oct. 22
		Musician Tim Eriksen, who served as the musical consultant for the film Cold Mountain, will visit the University of Iowa on Friday, Oct. 22, for a free, public performance and discussion starting at 7 p.m.
		American folk genres, Bosnian traditional and popular music and underground rock are the tip of an iceberg of musical experience.
		Eriksen was a visiting professor of American music at Dartmouth College in 2000 and 2001, and, in the summers of 2000 and 2002, he conducted ethnomusicological field work in Bosnia as part of ongoing research into popular and traditional music in the former Yugoslavia with his wife, Mirjana Lausevic.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2004/october/102004cold-mountain.html (533 words)

	Special Guests
		Blake met his wife Nancy while he was playing with Exit/In: she was a member of Natchez Trace, which opened a show for Exit/In.
		The Blakes have received two Grammy nominations for their work: in 1990, their album Blind Dog was nominated for Best Traditional Folk Recording and in 1993, their album Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To was nominated for Best Traditional Folk Album.
		Nancy Blake is taking a well-deserved sabbatical: Norman Blake's performance tonight is part of his current solo tour.
	prairiehome.publicradio.org /programs/19961019/guests.shtml (531 words)

	Library of Congress American Folklife Center Announces 2004 Concert Series
		Blake is one of the most respected musicians in the field of country music.
		It is co-sponsored by the American Folklife Center, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Folklore Society of Greater Washington.
		The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs and training.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2004/04-026.html (1498 words)

	Norman Blake in Concert November 3
		The concert is the second in the series "American Roots: Traditional Music from the Rural South." Tickets are $20 ($18 for members and students).
		Norman Blake's album Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm, was recently nominated for "Best Traditional Folk Album" at the 2001 Grammy Awards—the sixth nomination of his long career.
		Blake is featured on two tracks on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, which went to number one on the country charts.
	www.clarkart.edu /make_a_visit/press_releases/content.cfm?ID=124 (231 words)

	Q&A: Norman Blake (August 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norman: I remember playing pool with you and I remember Brendan jogging around the audience, we were all fans of Sonic Youth (still are) and it was a real thrill to play with them.
		Norman: We are all interested in politics but don't necessarily have a desire to articulate our political ideas in the context of the group.
		Norman: A bottle of vimto and twenty number six delivered to us by princess ann with a tattoo of emile heskey on her left cheek.
	teenagefansite.furrycookie.ca /qanda/norman2.html (4881 words)

	Dan Crary
		Norman Blake quit school at age 16 to play mandolin in a band, and music has been the focus of his life ever since.
		All Norman Blake fans know that when he chooses to Norman can certainly play very fast, he can play all over the neck, and he can play fiddle tunes and bluegrass with the best of them.
		In an interview conducted at the 1997 Merlefest event, Norman Blake talks about why he now prefers to play the slower traditional old-time numbers and why his current guitar of choice is his 1929 Gibson Nick Lucas special.
	www.flatpick.com /Pages/Featured_Artist/norman.html (4233 words)

	Norman Blake Albums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Neither Norman Blake nor Peter Ostroushko is well-known to the general public, but both are towering giants of American music, and this duet album plays to the strengths of both -- the exquisite taste, brilliant playing, and choice of material that plays to their combined strengths.
		While Norman Blake is far from a household name, the artists he has backed on record certainly are.
		Blind Dog is 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'.
	www.mp3.com /Norman-Blake/artists/465/discography.html (891 words)

	WOUB Online - Audiosyncrasies - Interview with Norman Blake
		Blake was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1938.
		As a guitarist, Norman Blake is a revered and highly respected talent.
		Everything Norman Blake does, whether it's songwriting, picking, or singing, is simple and straightforward, deeply steeped in tradition, and firmly rooted in rural Americana.
	woub.org /sync/feature-blake.html (370 words)

	American Profile: 1/13/2002 - 1/19/2002: An Ordinary Guy Playing Extraordinary Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		If the meek shall inherit the earth, Norman Blake is well on his way to claiming his share of the kingdom.
		Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Blake grew up in Sulphur Springs, Ga., and Rising Fawn, listening to the sounds of live radio, the well-worn records of Roy Acuff and the Carter Family, and the hillbilly plucking of his kinfolk.
		Blake performed the CD version of You Are My Sunshine, cut a guitar rendition of I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, and provided instrumentals on several other tracks.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20020113/20020113se_1731.asp (763 words)

	CMT.com : John Hartford : Norman and Nancy Blake's Rich Musical Journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Norman Blake was reluctant to record an old familiar song for a movie he'd never heard of, but nobody ever predicted that the O Brother, Where Art Thou?
		Nancy Blake was playing cello in an experimental band in Nashville when she met her future husband in 1972.
		Norman laughed, "That was the attitude of all toward our music at that period of time.
	www.cmt.com /artists/news/1488641/06232004/hartford_john.jhtml (1480 words)

	American Folk Music - Tony Bird -> Bob Brozman
		Norman is one of the finest guitarists, fiddlers and singers of American folk.
		The music he has composed for this special labor of love is similar in ton and complexity with his past work, so it is not quite the radical departure in style that it might appear to be.
		It was the artist's announced intention to broaden the stylistic range of his chosen instrument, in pursuit of which he mixes the devices of several traditions including those indicated in the disc title here.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/AMERICANFOLK/americanfolk_b2.htm (1348 words)

	Roots66: Music: Reviews: Norman & Nancy Blake - The Morning Glory Ramblers
		Chattanooga-born Norman Blake grew up listening to country music on the radio and records and gospel music in church.
		Norman met Nancy when her group, "Natchez Trace" opened for him at a show in Nashville.
		The Blakes start off with the optimistic classic, "The Sunny Side of Life." Nancy delightfully weaves her voice in counterpoint in the choruses.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/reviews/blake.shtml (816 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Image:Norman Blake.jpg thumbrightNorman Blake '''Norman Blake''' (born March 10, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American folk instrumentalist, singer, and composer.
		When Norman was one year old his family moved to Sulphur Springs, Georgia Sulphur Springs, Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia where he was raised.
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	www.mauspfeil.net /Norman_Blake_%28American_musician%29.html (230 words)

	Norman Blake \| Old Time Music Festival
		But the more you learn about Norman Blake, the harder it is to categorize him.
		'Country musician' comes to mind as a good way to define him, but about the time you make that decision, his music changes directions and takes on a more serious, almost semi-classical quality that gets close to some forms of Early American chamber music.
		It is sufficient to say that there are two basic elements in any Norman Blake program; a certain traditional quality most of the time, and total quality all the time.
	www.oldtimemusic.org /archive/pages/blake.htm (276 words)

	Music ~ The Rural Heritage Festival ~ June 18th, 2005 ~ Lisle, IL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the world of traditional, old-time music, Norman Blake stands as one of the most talented, tasteful, and humble musicians to ever pick a guitar.
		Norman Blake has been playing music professionally for nearly 50 years, having quit school to join a band at age 16.
		Blake's graceful flatpicked guitar--and occasional mandolin, Dobro and fiddle-- continues to captivate old fans and garner new ones.
	www.ruralfest.com /music.html (697 words)

	Celebrity Research Lists - Famous Dropouts, Celebrity Dropouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		British-born American chemist (dropped out of school to help support his family after his father died; later returned and graduated from high school and college).
		American businessman-philanthropist; co-founder of "The Standard Oil Company"; history's first recorded billionaire (dropped out of high school two months before graduation; took business courses for ten weeks at Folsom Mercantile College [a chain business school]).
		Arnold Schwarzenegger.....actor-producer; Governor of California; Austrian-born American author (left school at age 14 to begin bodybuilding training and carpentry apprenticeship; later in 1979 as an adult in the United States graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Superior).
	www.angelfire.com /stars4/lists/dropouts.html (4905 words)

	MP3 music download website, eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the 20th century was drawing to a close however, Blake was still largely unrecognized beyond the confin...
		There, Blake's readings of "You Are My Sunshine" and "Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental), rested comfortably amongst contributions from folk's old and new guard.
		Though Blake has always been praised more for his picking skills than his limited but steady tenor, he's particularly expressive on readings of "Sitting on Top of the World" and "Eastbound Freight Train." With Flower, Blake proves once again that, though fads may change, the quality of these songs remains the same.
	www.emusic.com /album/10585/10585996.html (427 words)

	CITYFOLK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The legendary North Carolina guitar player and singer Doc Watson, arguably the most important traditional American musician of the past 50 years, returns to Dayton for a concert Thursday, March 31, at the Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main Street in downtown Dayton.
		Watson was a masterful singer with a repertoire that drew from virtually all styles of American music, but it was his guitar playing that first made him a star.
		This style of Watson’s came to be called “flatpicking,” and is today widely heard as played by such guitarists as Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Dan Crary, David Grier and the late Clarence White.
	www.cityfolk.org /press_docwatson.htm (750 words)

	Five-Time Grammy Winner Doc Watson to Lead Off Clark Music Series
		Legendary musician Doc Watson will lead off the series "American Roots: Traditional Music from the Rural South" at the Clark Art Institute this fall and winter.
		Norman Blake, featured on the film's soundtrack, will perform on Saturday, November 3, at 8:00 p.m.
		Norman Blake's album Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm, was recently nominated for "Best Traditional Folk Album" at the 2002 Grammy Awards—his sixth nomination.
	www.clarkart.edu /make_a_visit/press_releases/content.cfm?ID=115 (413 words)

	Articles - Carter Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Their music had a profound impact on later bluegrass, country, pop and rock musicians, as well on the as the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.
		Flatpickers such as Doc Watson, Clarence White and Norman Blake (American musician) took flatpicking to a higher technical level, but all acknowledge Maybelle's playing as their inspiration.
		They were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 and they were given the nickname "The First Family of Country Music." In 1988, the Carter Family was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and received its Award for the song "Can the Circle Be Unbroken".
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/The_Carter_Family (815 words)

	Review - Norman Blake: Old Ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rounder has limited its Rounder Heritage series to 30 releases, in honor of the label's 30th anniversary, so for any artist in their extensive catalog of great music to get one all to himself is a significant tribute.
		soundtrack, Blake seems to have been everywhere that matters in American roots music for over 40 years, and the music on Old Ties provides an ample demonstration of the reason why.
		While he's a technically proficient musician, it's Blake's ability to find the emotional heart of a song and express it in clear, simple terms that makes him a master.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-july02/reviews/review_norman_blake.html (218 words)

	WU Libraries - Gaylord Music Library - Necrology - 2000
		Davis, James "Jimmy", American singer, songwriter, and politician known as the "singing governor", d.
		Johnson, Alvin, American musicologist and former executive director of the American Musicological Society, d.
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	library.wustl.edu /~music/necro/2000.html (2055 words)

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		Jim Kanas is an American roots musician, jazz guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, folk musician, independent artist, BMI artist, award winning guitarist, educator, producer with over twenty five years experience as a performer and educator.
		Jim plays in the styles of jazz, bluegrass, American folk music, swing, blues, mainstream jazz, contemporary jazz, traditional jazz, old-time, hillbilly, rock and roll, western swing, country, country and western, country blues, classical and other.
		He transcribed Wes Montgomery solos note for note and at age fifteen, and was introduced to eighteen year old guitarist Pat Metheny at the Aebersold Clinics one year later and then later George Benson.
	www.jimkanas.com (647 words)

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		Bloch, Suzanne, musician and teacher, early music specialist, daughter of Ernest Bloch, d.
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	library.wustl.edu /~music/necro/necro-b.html (2963 words)

	CMT.com: News
		As an artist, Blake has recorded more than two dozen albums, including many with his wife, Nancy.
		Blake played a spectacular acoustic guitar solo on Nashville Skyline's famous title track.
		While Norman's early solo albums were guitar-oriented, their work as a duo found him also playing fiddle and mandolin.
	cmt.com /news/articles/1488641/20040623/blake_norman.jhtml?... (1447 words)

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