Live at McCabe's (Norman Blake album)
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Live at McCabe's is an album of American
guitarist
Norman Blake
and Nancy Blake, released in 1975. It was recorded at McCabe's Guitar Shop
in Santa Monica, California
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Live at McCabe's was reissued on CD in 1987 along with Directions
by Takoma.
Production notes
United States
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guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Norman Blake
Norman Blake (American musician)
Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
and Nancy Blake, released in 1975. It was recorded at McCabe's Guitar Shop
McCabe's Guitar Shop
McCabe's Guitar Shop is a musical instrument store and live music venue on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. Opened in 1958, McCabe's specializes in acoustic and folk instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, fiddles, psaltries, bouzoukis, sitars, ouds, and ethnic...
in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
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Live at McCabe's was reissued on CD in 1987 along with Directions
Directions (Norman Blake album)
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"# "The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore"...
by Takoma.
Track listing
- "Introduction By Nancy Covey" – 0:38
- "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle TravisMerle TravisMerle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
) – 4:07 - "Sweet Heaven When I Die" (Grant) – 3:59
- "Introducing Nancy Blake" – 1:10
- "Border Widow" (Blake) – 2:10
- ""G" Medley: Green Leaf Fancy/Fields of November/Fort Smith" (Blake, Traditional) – 5:35
- "Dry Grass on the High Fields" (Blake) – 2:35
- "John Hardy" (Traditional) – 5:24
- "Arkansas Traveler" (Traditional) – 2:26
- "Medley: Bully of the Town/Bonaparte's Retreat/Richland Avenue Rag" (Traditional) – 3:22
- "Harvey's Reel" (Blake) – 2:00
Personnel
- Norman Blake – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
, vocals - Nancy Blake – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
Production notes
- Doug Decker – producer, engineer
- Kirk Felton – remastering
- Absalom Jackson – art direction, original cover artwork
- Jon MondayJon MondayJon Monday is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, Chalmers Johnson, and Charles Bukowski...
– art direction, original cover artwork - Jamie Putnam – art direction
- Deb Sibony – design