Wow, I just got Norman and Nancy Blake's "Natasha's Waltz" today. Rounder has a nice CD reissue of this classic mando material. Super-duper. Three thumbs up.
Wow, I just got Norman and Nancy Blake's "Natasha's Waltz" today. Rounder has a nice CD reissue of this classic mando material. Super-duper. Three thumbs up.
I agree totally. The full-on Norman mandolin experience.
Steven E. Cantrell
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That album had been on my list for a while and my wife gave me a copy for Christmas. It is a great album. I love that time period from Norman and Nancy. Both of them are underrated/underappreciated mandolin players. Norman also an underappreciated fiddler, IMHO.
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One of my favorites is Blake's March. That's a song my band plays quite often.
Norman can play anything. I finally got to see him and Nancy in Mountain View Arkansas last year. He's back to his old Gibson guitar now instead of the Martin.
Nancy played the white top Gibson A model. Norman's pretty salty on the dobro too.
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I saw the Blake's with James Bryan and his daughter (early 20's) Rachel Bryan in Chattanooga in October. Great show, James on fiddle, Rachel on gtr., oldish blacktop Gibson oval hole, and fiddle, Nancy had her Cello of course and her '29 00-45, and Norman played his '35 D-28 and a Dobro made by Mark Taylor (Tut's son). Got a chance to meet Norman after the show, extremely nice guy answered all of my guitar nerd questions for me.
1924 Gibson A Jr. Snakehead
2004 Elkhorn A-5, #3
2016 White F-5, #6
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