Meeting on Southern Soil

Meeting on Southern Soil is an album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko, released in 2002.

Meeting On Southern Soil
Studio album by
Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko
ReleasedFebruary 12, 2002
RecordedDecember 8 - 10, 2000
GenreAmericana, folk
LabelRed House
Peter Ostroushko chronology
Sacred Heart
(2000)		 Meeting On Southern Soil
(2002)		 Coming Down from Red Lodge
(2003)
Norman Blake chronology
'Old Ties
(2002)
(2002)		 '''''Meeting on Southern Soil
(2002)
(2002)		 'The Morning Glory Ramblers
(2004)
(2004)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Writing for Allmusic, the music critic Chris Nickson wrote of the album, "Albums like this renew the roots of American music, bringing new blood (tunes and songs) into what is really a flowing river of history. To hear these two together is a sheer joy and a triumph of musical skill and love."[1]

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Blackberry Blossom" – 3:37
  2. "Rise When the Rooster Crows " – 3:14
  3. "President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:17
  4. "Blake's Railroad Blues" (Blake) – 8:45
  5. "Muddy Creek" – 2:59
  6. "Little Bessie" – 6:03
  7. "Chickamauga" (Ostroushko) – 4:03
  8. "Only a Bunch of Violets" – 4:33
  9. "Oklahoma Redbird" – 2:44
  10. "I Cannot Call Her Mother" – 3:46
  11. "Marjorie's Waltz #3" (Ostroushko) – 6:52
  12. "The Old Hickory Cane" – 3:19
  13. "Oh Death" – 4:53
  14. "Mandolin Medley: Caperton Ferry/Ruins of Richmond/Valley Head" (Blake) – 4:58
  15. "The Little Log Hut in the Lane" – 2:40
  16. "Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna" (Ostroushko) – 3:04

Personnel

Production notes
  • Norman Blake – mixing
  • Peter Ostroushko – mixing
  • Jim Emrich – engineer
  • David Glasser – mastering
  • Carla Leighton – art direction, design
  • Billy Pierce – assistant engineer
  • Lane Brown Taylor – photography
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References
  1. Nickson, Chris. "Meeting on Southern Soil > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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