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

101	Roll on Buddy	Norman Blake	03:50
102	Goodbye to the Plains	Norman Blake	03:07
103	Little Bunch of Roses	Norman Blake	03:00
104	The Tramp	Norman Blake	02:54
105	Hawaiian Mother O'Mine	Norman Blake	03:23
106	The Old Wooden Rocker	Norman Blake	03:52
107	Railroading on the Great Divide	Norman Blake	02:54
108	Steel Guitar Chimes	Norman Blake	03:54
109	Have No Desire to Roam	Norman Blake	03:08
110	Green Light on the Southern	Norman Blake	02:50
111	Fifteen Miles From Birmingham	Norman Blake	03:32
112	The Wreck on the C&O	Norman Blake	03:59
113	He Rambled	Norman Blake	04:01
114	Whistling Rufus	Norman Blake	01:50
115	Goobye Dear Old Stepstone	Norman Blake	04:59
116	Bandit Cole Younger	Norman Blake	04:19
117	The New Spanish Two Step	Norman Blake	03:23