Norman Blake (American musician)
Nashville and Johnny Cash
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===Nashville and Johnny Cash=== |
===Nashville and Johnny Cash=== |
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After being discharged from the Army, Blake moved to Nashville and became a [[studio musician]]. For 10 years, he toured and recorded with country singer [[Johnny Cash]] and continued to play with Cash intermittently over the next 30. He met Nancy Short, a cellist with a [[classical music]] background who was playing in a folk group. He was asked by [[Bob Dylan]] to play on the country-folk album ''[[Nashville Skyline]]'', then became a member of the house band on Johnny Cash's TV show. [[Kris Kristofferson]], one of the guests, hired Blake to tour with him. Blake recorded with folk singer [[Joan Baez]] and appeared on her hit song "[[The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down]]". In 1971, he became a member of the bluegrass group Aero-plain, led by multi-instrumentalist [[John Hartford]] with fiddler [[Vassar Clements]], a short-lived project. |
After being discharged from the Army, Blake moved to Nashville and became a [[studio musician]]. For 10 years, he toured and recorded with country singer [[Johnny Cash]] and continued to play with Cash intermittently over the next 30 years. He met Nancy Short, a cellist with a [[classical music]] background who was playing in a folk group. He was asked by [[Bob Dylan]] to play on the country-folk album ''[[Nashville Skyline]]'', then became a member of the house band on Johnny Cash's TV show. [[Kris Kristofferson]], one of the guests, hired Blake to tour with him. Blake recorded with folk singer [[Joan Baez]] and appeared on her hit song "[[The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down]]". In 1971, he became a member of the bluegrass group Aero-plain, led by multi-instrumentalist [[John Hartford]] with fiddler [[Vassar Clements]], a short-lived project. |
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Blake also played dobro on the 1972 album ''[[Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)|Will the Circle Be Unbroken]]'' by the [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]].{{Cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/will-the-circle-be-unbroken-mw0000193505/credits |title=Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Credits |website=AllMusic |access-date=March 19, 2017}} |
Blake also played dobro on the 1972 album ''[[Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)|Will the Circle Be Unbroken]]'' by the [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]].{{Cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/will-the-circle-be-unbroken-mw0000193505/credits |title=Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Credits |website=AllMusic |access-date=March 19, 2017}} |
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