Back Home in Sulphur Springs (Norman and Nancy Blake album)

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Back Home in Sulphur Springs
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Studio album by Norman Blake and Nancy Blake
Released January 31, 2006
Recorded July 28 – 30, 2004
Genre Americana, folk
Label Western Jubilee
Norman Blake chronology
The Morning Glory Ramblers
(2004)		Back Home in Sulphur Springs
(2006)		 Shacktown Road
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Back Home in Sulphur Springs is an album by Americana and folk musicians Norman Blake and Nancy Blake, released in 2006. It is not the same title as Norman Blake's 1972 debut album. Rounder Records incorrectly titled the reissue of Home in Sulphur Springs the same as this release. The album was reissued again by Plectrafone Records.

Folk music musical and poetic creativity of the people

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

Norman Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter.

<i>Home in Sulphur Springs</i> 1972 studio album by Norman Blake

Home in Sulphur Springs is the debut album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1972. The album was reissued by Rounder records with the title incorrectly printed as Back Home in Sulphur Springs.

Contents

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "More Good Women Gone Wrong" – 3:15
  2. "Columbus Stockade Blues" – 3:24
  3. "He's Coming to Us Dead" – 3:02
  4. "The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee" – 3:35
  5. "We Parted by the Riverside" – 3:56
  6. "Ella Ree" – 3:37
  7. "Happy Little Home in Arkansas" – 3:10
  8. "Back Home in Sulphur Springs" (Norman Blake) – 3:24
  9. "The Mermaid" – 5:25
  10. "Take Me Home Poor Julia" – 4:36
  11. "Seaboard Airline Rag" (Blake) – 2:51
  12. "The Star-Spangled Banner" – 1:58
  13. "The Empress of Ireland" (James Bryan) – 3:38
  14. "Katy Cline" – 3:23
  15. "Don't Be Afraid of the NeoCons" (Norman Blake) Hidden Track - 4:23

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Fiddle musical instrument

Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.

Production notes

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References

  1. ↑ Back Home in Sulphur Springs at AllMusic
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