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

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

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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

References edit

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

[AM-1] Dryden, Ken. "Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 2, 2011.

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