Slow Train Through Georgia

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Slow Train through Georgia
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Compilation album by
Norman Blake
Released1987
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Length69:35
Label Rounder
Norman Blake chronology
Natasha's Waltz
(1987)		Slow Train through Georgia
(1987)		 Blake & Rice
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Slow Train through Georgia is a compilation album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1987. It contains songs from Blake's releases in the 1970s.

Track listing

  1. "Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast" (Traditional) – 3:31
  2. "Slow Train Through Georgia" (Norman Blake) – 4:06
  3. "Old Grey Mare" (Traditional) – 3:29
  4. "Down Home Summertime Blues" (Blake) – 3:40
  5. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 3:47
  6. "Randall Collins" (Blake) – 1:52
  7. "Church Street Blues" (Blake) – 2:52
  8. "Done Gone" (Traditional) – 1:36
  9. "Bully of the Town" (Traditional) – 2:00
  10. "Nashville Blues" (Alton Delmore) – 3:45
  11. "Ginseng Sullivan" (Blake) – 3:29
  12. "Macon Rag" (Blake) – 2:41
  13. "Nobody's Business" (Traditional) – 3:13
  14. "The Streamlined Cannonball" (Traditional) – 4:57
  15. "Cattle in the Cane" (Traditional) – 2:10
  16. "Little Joe" (Traditional) – 2:36
  17. "Weave and Way" (Traditional) – 2:23
  18. "Six White Horses" (Traditional) – 4:56
  19. "Richland Avenue (Front Porch Wood Pile) Rag" (Blake) – 1:54
  20. "The Banks of Good Hope/The Green Fields of America" (Traditional) – 5:53
  21. "Columbus Stockade Blues" (Traditional) – 3:28
  22. "Down at Mylow's House" (Blake) – 1:17

Personnel


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