Norman Blake was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1938, shortly before his family relocated to Sulphur Springs, Georgia. And though Blake stopped touring in 2007 to enter retirement, at the age of 83 he continues to play and record, with his most recent album, Day By Day, released last October by Smithsonian Folkways.
But his accolades are dizzying: He has worked as a studio musician and sideman for some of Nashville’s greatest stars his songs have been covered by the likes of Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Tony Rice, and the Punch Brothers he has received a multitude of Grammy awards and nominations and he is considered one of the finest and most influential flatpickers ever. Blake has kept a low profile, living the majority of his life in the quiet northwestern corner of Georgia. Often described as one of the great unsung heroes of 20th-century folk music, it’s hard to imagine that Norman Blake, never one for the spotlight, would want it any other way. TIA.From the March/April 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Alan Barnosky Looking forward to your smart answers to my simple questions. This is just food for thought for a future lesson. I don't expect a reply next week, of course.
A way to make your playing fit the opportunities that a particular position gives you. I'd love to see a lesson where you explain how you go about finding an approach that's different, but equally cool, when you're moving around/up the neck. Unfortunately I've discovered that those little "guitaristic" techniques/positions, don't alway work/translate when you're playing the melody up the neck. Or that slick little chunk o' chords tag in the "Norman Blake" version of Soldier's Joy. (And maybe Grimes isn't the ideal tune for the answer because it's pretty much a single line as you play it.)Ī lot of the fun of playing WBB is the opportunity for crosspicking around the C and F shapes in the first positon. In figuring out this melody in the first position, I also (thanks to the encouragement from your WBB lesson) worked our OG up the neck. Will OG be Critter's "Whiskey Before Breakfast?" (some guy with a beard and a big ol 12-fretter played that one pretty good IIRCīut seriously, Chris. I'm not the fastest learner and this one came relatively quick, even learning it more by ear than by tab.
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