Directions (Norman Blake album)

Directions

Studio album by Norman Blake

Released

1978

Genre

Americana, bluegrass, folk

Label

Takoma

Norman Blake chronology

Blackberry Blossom
(1977)

Directions
(1978)

Rising Fawn String Ensemble
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Directions is an album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1978. It was reissued in 1987 on CD along with Live at McCabe's by Takoma.

Track listing

"Blue Ridge Mountain Blues"
"Thebes"
"The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore"
"Medley: Loch Lavan Castle/Santa Ana's Retreat/Cattle in the Cane"
"Poor Ellen Smith"
"Uncle Sam"
"Ice on the Road"
"Rake and the Rambling Blade"
"High Dad in the Morning"
"Father's Hall"
"White House Breakdown"
"'76 Blues"

^[2]==Personnel==

Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, mando-cello, vocal
Nancy Blake - cello, vocal
Miles Anderson - alto trombone, tenor trombone, bass trumpet, baritone horn, bass trombone
Joseph Byrd - arranging (Uncle Sam)
George Belle - engineer

References

Norman Blake

Studio albums	Back Home in Sulphur Springs The Fields of November Old and New Live at McCabe's Whiskey Before Breakfast Blackberry Blossom Directions Nashville Blues Lighthouse on the Shore The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc Blind Dog Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To While Passing Along This Way The Hobo's Last Ride Chattanooga Sugar Babe Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm Flower From the Fields of Alabama The Morning Glory Ramblers Back Home in Sulphur Springs

with the Rising Fawn String Ensemble	Rising Fawn String Ensemble Full Moon on the Farm Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South

With Tony Rice	Blake & Rice Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2

Soundtracks	O Brother, Where Art Thou? Cold Mountain Walk the Line

Compilation albums	Natasha's Waltz Slow Train Through Georgia Old Ties

Collaborations or as sideman	Nashville Skyline Aereo-Plain Will the Circle Be Unbroken Friar Tut Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns Norman Blake and Red Rector Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene Meeting on Southern Soil Steam Powered Aereo-Takes Shacktown Road Raising Sand Rising Fawn Gathering

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