Norman Blake
Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938) is an American acoustic guitarist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who is a foundational figure in the neo-traditionalist folk and bluegrass revivals. Raised in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Blake worked as a premier Nashville session musician, tracking on Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline (1969), touring with Johnny Cash and John Hartford, contributing to the landmark Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972). He frequently performs as a duo with his wife, cellist Nancy Blake and introduced traditional roots music to 21st-century audiences through his Grammy-nominated contributions to the multi-platinum soundtrack for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).