Old Ties

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Old Ties
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Compilation album by
Released2002
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Rounder
Norman Blake chronology
Flower From the Fields of Alabama
(2001)
Old Ties
(2002)
Meeting on Southern Soil
(2002)
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Old Ties is an album by American musician Norman Blake, released in 2002.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 3:49
  2. "Church St. Blues" (Norman Blake) – 2:54
  3. "Sleepy Eyed Joe/Indian Creek" (Traditional) – 3:38
  4. "O'Malley's Tune" (Traditional) – 2:30
  5. "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" (A. P. Carter) – 3:49
  6. "Down Home Summertime Blues" (Blake) – 3:42
  7. "Blind Dog" (Blake) – 2:55
  8. "Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast" (Traditional) – 3:35
  9. "Old Ties" (Uncle Dave Macon) – 4:26
  10. "Lost Indian" (Traditional) – 3:08
  11. "Ginseng Sullivan" (Traditional) – 3:31
  12. "Obc, No. 3" (Blake) – 5:48
  13. "Prettiest Little Girl in the Country" (Traditional) – 2:17
  14. "Uncle" (Blake) – 4:34
  15. "Bristol in the Bottle" (Blake) – 2:05
  16. "Billy Gray" (Blake) – 4:07
  17. "The Fields of November" (Blake) – 4:06
  18. "Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) – 3:34
  19. "Randall Collins/Done Gone" (Blake) – 6:06

Personnel

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References

  1. Johnson, Zac. Old Ties at AllMusic. Retrieved February 17, 2012.