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Fields of November

Norman Blake

Album · 1974 · Flying Fish FF 004

The Fields of November was released by Flying Fish in 1974 (catalog number FF 004) and was the first album Norman Blake made with Nancy Short, the cellist he married the following year. Blake wrote every song on it. He plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin and dobro, Short plays cello, Charlie Collins plays guitar and fiddle, and Tut Taylor is credited on dobro.

The program is a mix of instrumentals and songs: “Green Leaf Fancy,” “White Oak Swamp,” “Ruins of Richmond,” “Caperton Ferry,” “Krazy Kurtis” and the title track are instrumentals, while Blake sings “Last Train from Poor Valley,” “Graycoat Soldiers,” “Southern Railroad Blues,” “Lord Won’t You Help Me” and “Uncle.” Flying Fish later reissued the album on a double CD together with Blake’s 1975 album Old and New.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Green Leaf Fancy 1:55
  2. 2 Last Train From Poor Valley alt version 3:41
  3. 3 White Oak Swamp 2:16
  4. 4 Graycoat Soldiers 3:14
  5. 5 Southern Railroad Blues 3:16
  6. 6 Lord Won't You Help Me 2:51
  7. 7 Krazy Kurtis 1:26
  8. 8 Coming Down From Rising Fawn 3:34
  9. 9 Uncle 4:34
  10. 10 The Old Brown Case 4:01
  11. 11 The Fields of November 4:07
  12. 12 Widow's Creek 1:52
  13. 13 Bristol in the Bottle 2:05
  14. 14 Billy Gray 4:24
  15. 15 Forked Deer alt version 2:56
  16. 16 Cuckoo’s Nest alt version 3:30
  17. 17 Witch Of The Wave 1:28
  18. 18 My Old Home On The Green Mountain Side 2:59
  19. 19 Miller’s Reel alt version 4:29
  20. 20 Dry Grass on the High Fields 2:22
  21. 21 Harvey's Reel 2:18
  22. 22 The Railroad Days 3:41
  23. 23 Valley Head 1:48
  24. 24 Sweet Heaven When I Die alt version 2:09
  25. 25 Ajimina 2:09
  26. 26 Flat Rock 2:23

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