Flower from the Fields of Alabama

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Flower From the Fields of Alabama
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Studio album by Norman Blake
Released 2001
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Shanachie
Producer Norman Blake
Norman Blake chronology
Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm
(1999)		Flower From the Fields of Alabama
(2001)		 Old Ties
(2002)
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Flower From the Fields of Alabama is an album by the American musician Norman Blake, released in 2001.

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

Contents

Track listing

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Salty Dog" – 4:21
  2. "Bonaparte's Grand March" – 5:20
  3. "The Slopes of Beech Mountain" (Blake) – 3:10
  4. "Sitting on Top of the World"" (Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson) – 6:22
  5. "Radio Joe" (Blake) – 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" (Grandpa Jones) – 3:33
  14. "The Burial of Wild Bill" – 3:23
  15. "T.A.G. Railroad Rag" (Blake) – 6:10
  16. "If We Never Meet Again" (Albert E. Brumley) – 5:19

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.

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.

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