Back Home in Sulphur Springs (Norman and Nancy Blake album)

Back Home in Sulphur Springs is an album by Americana

Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...

and folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

musicians 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 Nancy Blake, released in 2006. It has the same title as Norman Blake's 1972 debut album

Back Home in Sulphur Springs

Back Home in Sulphur Springs is the debut album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1972.Blake and his wife Nancy recorded an album of the same title in 2006.- Track listing :# "Little Joe" – 2:49...

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

"More Good Women Gone Wrong" – 3:15
"Columbus Stockade Blues" – 3:24
"He's Coming to Us Dead" – 3:02
"The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee" – 3:35
"We Parted by the Riverside" – 3:56
"Ella Ree" – 3:37
"Happy Little Home in Arkansas" – 3:10
"Back Home in Sulphur Springs" (Norman Blake) – 3:24
"The Mermaid" – 5:25
"Take Me Home Poor Julia" – 4:36
"Seaboard Airline Rag" (Blake) – 2:51
"The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...

" – 1:58
"The Empress of Ireland" (James Bryan) – 3:38
"Katy Cline" – 3:23

Personnel

Norman Blake – 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, vocals, dobro
Dobro
Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
Nancy Blake – guitar, mandolin, 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...

, vocals

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