Meeting on Southern Soil is an album by 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 Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...

, released in 2002.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Chris Nickson wrote of the album "Albums like this renew the roots of American music, bringing new blood (tunes and songs) into what is really a flowing river of history. To hear these two together is a sheer joy and a triumph of musical skill and love."

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

1. "Blackberry Blossom" – 3:37
2. "Rise When the Rooster Crows " – 3:14
3. "President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:17
4. "Blake's Railroad Blues" (Blake) – 8:45
5. "Muddy Creek" – 2:59
6. "Little Bessie" – 6:03
7. "Chickamauga" (Ostroushko) – 4:03
8. "Only a Bunch of Violets" – 4:33
9. "Oklahoma Redbird" – 2:44
10. "I Cannot Call Her Mother" – 3:46
11. "Marjorie's Waltz #3" (Ostroushko) – 6:52
12. "The Old Hickory Cane" – 3:19
13. "Oh Death" – 4:53
14. "Mandolin Medley: Caperton Ferry/Ruins of Richmond/Valley Head" (Blake) – 4:58
15. "The Little Log Hut in the Lane" – 2:40
16. "Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna" (Ostroushko) – 3:04

Personnel

• Peter Ostroushko – guitar
  Guitar
  The 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...
  
  , mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The 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...
  
  , mandola
  Mandola
  The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...
  
  , vocals
• Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Nancy Blake – cello
  Cello
  The 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

• Norman Blake – mixing
• Peter Ostroushko – mixing
• Jim Emrich – engineer
• David Glasser – mastering
• Carla Leighton – art direction, design
• Billy Pierce – assistant engineer
• Lane Brown Taylor – photography