Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns

Studio album by

Norman Blake

Released

1975

Recorded

Jun 22, 1974, Nashville, TN

Genre

Americana, bluegrass, folk

Length

36:43

Label

Flying Fish

Norman Blake chronology

Old and New
(1975)

Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
(1975)

Live at McCabe's
(1976)

Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns is a studio album recorded by American musicians Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, and Jethro Burns and British bassist Dave Holland. It was released in 1975.

From Hank Deane's original liner notes: "Hey, let's do a record in Nashville with everybody. "And Jethro Burns", says Sam. OK, all right, let's do it. I fly to Nashville to see Claude Hill and we do it."

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Ken Dryden, in his AllMusic review states the album "...blur[s] the imaginary lines between jazz and bluegrass even further; after all, a good musician in either field should be a great improviser."^[1]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweet Georgia Brown"	Ben Bernie Kenneth Casey Maceo Pinkard	2:53
2.	"Sauerkraut 'n Solar Energy"	Jethro Burns Vassar Clements David Holland	7:33
3.	"The Old Brown Case"	Norman Blake	3:58
4.	"Take the "A" Train"	Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn	3:36

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Going Home"	Antonín Dvořák	3:02
2.	"McKinley's Blues"	Traditional	4:21
3.	"Oconee"	Tut Taylor	5:26
4.	"Vassar and Dave"	Clements Holland	5:54

Personnel

Norman Blake – guitar, mandocello, vocals
Vassar Clements – violin
Jethro Burns – guitar, mandolin
Butch Robins – banjo
Tut Taylor – dobro, mandolin
Sam Bush – mandola, mandolin
David Holland – bass

Production

Claude J. Hill – engineer
Jim McGuire – photography
Hank Deane – liner notes

References

^ ^a ^b Dryden, Ken. "Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 2, 2011.

v t e Norman Blake
Studio albums	Home in Sulphur Springs The Fields of November Old and New Live at McCabe's Whiskey Before Breakfast Blackberry Blossom Directions Nashville Blues Lighthouse on the Shore The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc Blind Dog Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To While Passing Along This Way The Hobo's Last Ride Chattanooga Sugar Babe Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm Flower from the Fields of Alabama The Morning Glory Ramblers Back Home in Sulphur Springs
with the Rising Fawn String Ensemble	Rising Fawn String Ensemble Full Moon on the Farm Original Underground Music from the Mysterious South
With Tony Rice	Blake & Rice Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2
Soundtracks	O Brother, Where Art Thou? Cold Mountain Walk the Line
Compilation albums	Natasha's Waltz Slow Train Through Georgia Old Ties
Collaborations or as sideman	Nashville Skyline Aereo-Plain Will the Circle Be Unbroken Friar Tut Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns Norman Blake and Red Rector Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene Meeting on Southern Soil Steam Powered Aereo-Takes Shacktown Road Raising Sand Rising Fawn Gathering

v t e Dave Holland
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Where Fortune Smiles (with John McLaughlin, John Surman, Karl Berger, and Stu Martin, 1970) A.R.C. (with Chick Corea and Barry Altschul, 1971) Music from Two Basses (with Barre Phillips, 1971) Conference of the Birds (1972) Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns (1974) Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (1975) Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (1975) Emerald Tears (1977) Life Cycle (1982) Jumpin' In (1983) Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland (1984) Seeds of Time (1984) The Razor's Edge (1987) Triplicate (1988) The Oracle (with Hank Jones and Billy Higgins, 1989) Extensions (1989) Phase Space (with Steve Coleman, 1991) Ones All (1993) Dream of the Elders (1995) Points of View (1997) Prime Directive (1998) Not for Nothin' (2000) What Goes Around (2001) Overtime (2002) Oh! (2002) Critical Mass (2005) Pass It On (2007) Hands (with Pepe Habichuela, 2009) Prism (2012) The Art of Conversation (with Kenny Barron, 2014) Aziza (2015) Uncharted Territories (2017) Another Land (2019) Without Deception (with Kenny Barron, 2019)
Live albums	Improvisations for Cello and Guitar (with Derek Bailey, 1971) Extended Play: Live at Birdland (2001) Reunion: Live in New York (with Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, 2007) Pathways (2009)
Related articles	Circle Gateway

This page was last edited on 7 April 2024, at 19:52