Old and New (album)

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Old and New
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Studio album by Norman Blake
Released 1975
Genre Americana, folk
Label Flying Fish
Producer Bruce Kaplan
Norman Blake chronology
The Fields of November
(1974)		Old and New
(1975)		 Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
(1975)

Old and New is an album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1975. It was reissued in 1992 by Flying Fish along with The Fields of November as a double CD. [1]

Guitarist person who plays the guitar

A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica.

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

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his Allmusic review, critic Jim Smith wrote "All of the musicians from Fields of November are present, but overall the energy is higher, especially on the instrumentals "Miller's Reel" and "Aljimina."" [2]

Track listing

All songs by Norman Blake unless otherwise noted.

Side one

  1. "Widow's Creek"
  2. "Bristol in the Bottle"
  3. "Billy Gray"
  4. "Forked Deer" (Traditional)
  5. "Rubagfre"
  6. "Cuckoo's Nest" (Traditional)
  7. "Witch of the Wake" (Traditional)
  8. "My Old Home in the Green Mountain Side"

Side two

  1. "Miller's Reel" (Traditional)
  2. "Dry Grass in the High Fields"
  3. "Harvey's Reel"
  4. "The Railroad Days"
  5. "Valley Head"
  6. "Sweet Heaven" (Traditional)
  7. "Sally in the Garden" (Traditional)
  8. "Aljamina"
  9. "Flat Rock"

Personnel

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.

Dobro American guitar brand

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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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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic reissue entry for The Fields of November/Old and New
  2. 1 2 Smith, Jim. "Old and New > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 3, 2015.
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