''Shacktown Road'' is an album by
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musicians
Norman Blake,
Nancy Blake and
Tut Taylor
Robert Arthur "Tut" Taylor Sr. (November 20, 1923 – April 9, 2015) was an American bluegrass musician.
Taylor played banjo and mandolin as a child, and began playing dobro at age 14, learning to use the instrument with a distinctive flat-pick ...
, released in 2007. It was the first time Blake and Taylor recorded together since they were members of
John Hartford
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's Aero-Plain band in the 1970s.
Track listing
#"Shacktown Road" (Tut Taylor) – 4:34
#"Kindred Spirit" (Taylor) – 2:34
#"Guitar Rag" (Traditional) – 3:21
#"Not a Word from Home" (
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedow ...
) – 2:58
#"The Old Dobro Man" (Taylor) – 3:59
#"Worried Blues" (Traditional) – 4:21
#"Tom Scala's Waltz" (Norman Blake) – 3:02
#"Lizzie Hubbard Blues" (Taylor) – 6:31
#"Going to Georgia" (Traditional) – 2:44
#"Ode to Bascom" (Taylor) – 2:30
#"On the Banks of Lake Pontchatrain" (Bryan) – 2:55
#"It Must Be Jelly" (Taylor) – 2:13
#"The Tag Railroad Rag" (Blake) – 3:33
#"Running Wild" (Taylor) – 1:37
#"Times Ain't Like They Used to Be" (Traditional) – 3:44
#"End of the World" (
Fred Rose) – 3:10
#"Steel Guitar Blues" (Traditional) – 1:46
#"The Buffalo Left Yesterday" (Taylor) – 2:19
Personnel
*Norman Blake –
guitar
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,
mandolin
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,
dobro
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*Nancy Blake – guitar, mandolin,
cello
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,
mandola
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*Tut Taylor – dobro, vocals, recitation
*Joel Landsberg –
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2007 albums
Norman Blake (American musician) albums
Tut Taylor albums