Green Light on the Southern

“I’ve seen the rural music I’ve loved since childhood grow fainter and farther away in a commercial and urbanized society that seems to care little for the charms of old-fashioned southern string music and its long-gone practitioners…. Here are some of the old songs I play and sing around home…one can live by the sentiment and poetry found in many of them.”
-Norman Blake
Named in honor of the Alabama Great Southern Railway, Green Light on the Southern is a collection of seventeen recordings from acclaimed American roots musician Norman Blake. Mostly traditional selections, they represent several songs Blake has known since his boyhood. Authentic string band music caringly performed, Green Light... features Blake (and at times, his wife Nancy) playing the music with which he is most at home.
Track Listing
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Roll on Buddy | Norman Blake | 3:50 | |
102
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Goodbye to the Plains | Norman Blake | 3:07 | |
103
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Little Bunch of Roses | Norman Blake | 3:00 | |
104
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The Tramp | Norman Blake | 2:54 | |
105
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Hawaiian Mother O'Mine | Norman Blake | 3:23 | |
106
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The Old Wooden Rocker | Norman Blake | 3:52 | |
107
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Railroading on the Great Divide | Norman Blake | 2:54 | |
108
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Steel Guitar Chimes | Norman Blake | 3:54 | |
109
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Have No Desire to Roam | Norman Blake | 3:08 | |
110
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Green Light on the Southern | Norman Blake | 2:50 | |
111
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Fifteen Miles From Birmingham | Norman Blake | 3:32 | |
112
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The Wreck on the C&O | Norman Blake | 3:59 | |
113
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He Rambled | Norman Blake | 4:01 | |
114
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Whistling Rufus | Norman Blake | 1:50 | |
115
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Goobye Dear Old Stepstone | Norman Blake | 4:59 | |
116
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Bandit Cole Younger | Norman Blake | 4:19 | |
117
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The New Spanish Two Step | Norman Blake | 3:23 |