While Passing Along This Way

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While Passing Along This Way
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Studio album by Norman Blake, Nancy Blake
Released 1994
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Shanachie
Producer Norman Blake, Nancy Blake
Norman Blake chronology
Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To
(1992)
While Passing Along This Way
(1994)
The Hobo's Last Ride
(1996)
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While Passing Along This Way is an album of American musicians Norman Blake and Nancy Blake, released in 1994. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

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

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "He's Passing This Way" (Wade Mainer) – 3:12
  2. "I'm Going to Leave Old Dixie" – 4:09
  3. "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine/Going Down the Valley" (Traditional) – 4:42
  4. "The Grave of Bonaparte" (Blake, Traditional) – 4:36
  5. "On & On & On" (Blake, Blake) – 3:06
  6. "The Greenwood Tree" (Traditional) – 1:52
  7. "Sweeet Freedom" (Traditional) – 3:45
  8. "Sweet Heaven" (Traditional) – 2:26
  9. "God's Radio Phone" (Mainer) – 4:36
  10. "Old Mother Flanagan" (Blake, Traditional) – 3:03
  11. "Last Train from Poor Valley" (Blake, Blake) – 3:44
  12. "Hangin' Dog" (Blake) – 2:47
  13. "The Fate of Talmage" (Traditional) – 3:36
  14. "Old Stepstone" (Blake, Traditional) – 3:53

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

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Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

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