Lighthouse on the Shore

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Lighthouse on the Shore
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Released1985
RecordedOctober 1984 in Rising Fawn, Georgia
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Rounder
Producer Norman Blake
Norman Blake chronology
Nashville Blues
(1984)
Lighthouse on the Shore
(1985)
The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc
(1986)
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Lighthouse on the Shore is an album by American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1985.

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hello Stranger" (Carter Family) – 3:07
  2. "New Bicycle Hornpipe" (Nancy Blake) – 2:32
  3. "Marquis of Huntley" (William Marshall, Traditional) – 2:30
  4. "Belize" (Blake) – 3:40
  5. "Elzic's Farewell" (Traditional) – 4:23
  6. "Lighthouse on the Shore" (Blake) – 5:08

Side two

  1. "President Garfield's Hornpipe" (Traditional) – 2:23
  2. "If I Lose, I Don't Care" (Traditional) – 3:01
  3. "Butterfly Weed" (Blake) – 2:54
  4. "Boston Boy/Last Night's Joy" (Traditional) – 2:21
  5. "Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel" (Uncle Dave Macon) – 3:59
  6. "Peacock's Feather" (Traditional) – 1:42
  7. "Wildwood Flower" (Carter Family) – 3:17
  8. "Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase" (Traditional) – 2:50

Personnel

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