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Meeting On Southern Soil 
Studio album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko Released February 12, 2002 Recorded December 8 - 10, 2000 Genre Americana, folk Label Red House Peter Ostroushko chronology Sacred Heart
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Contents
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Writing for Allmusic, 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.
- "Blackberry Blossom" – 3:37
- "Rise When the Rooster Crows " – 3:14
- "President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:17
- "Blake's Railroad Blues" (Blake) – 8:45
- "Muddy Creek" – 2:59
- "Little Bessie" – 6:03
- "Chickamauga" (Ostroushko) – 4:03
- "Only a Bunch of Violets" – 4:33
- "Oklahoma Redbird" – 2:44
- "I Cannot Call Her Mother" – 3:46
- "Marjorie's Waltz #3" (Ostroushko) – 6:52
- "The Old Hickory Cane" – 3:19
- "Oh Death" – 4:53
- "Mandolin Medley: Caperton Ferry/Ruins of Richmond/Valley Head" (Blake) – 4:58
- "The Little Log Hut in the Lane" – 2:40
- "Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna" (Ostroushko) – 3:04
Personnel
- Peter Ostroushko – guitar, mandolin, fiddle, mandola, vocals
- Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals
- Nancy Blake – cello
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
References
- ^ a b Nickson, Chris. "Meeting on Southern Soil > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r571870. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
Studio albums Back Home in Sulphur Springs · The Fields of November · Old and New · * Live at McCabe's · Whiskey Before Breakfast · Blackberry Blossom · Directions · Nashville Blues · Lighthouse on the Shore · The Norman & Nancy Blake Compact Disc · Blind Dog · Just Gimme Somethin' I'm Used To · While Passing Along This Way · The Hobo's Last Ride · Chattanooga Sugar Babe · Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm · Flower From the Fields of Alabama · The Morning Glory Ramblers · Back Home in Sulphur Springswith the Rising Fawn String Ensemble Rising Fawn String Ensemble · Full Moon on the Farm · Original Underground Music from the Mysterious SouthWith Tony Rice Blake & Rice · Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2Soundtracks Compilation albums Collaborations or as sideman Nashville Skyline · Aereo-plain · Will the Circle Be Unbroken · Friar Tut · Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns · Norman Blake and Red Rector · Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene · Meeting on Southern Soil · Steam Powered Aereo-Takes · Shacktown Road · Raising Sand · Rising Fawn GatheringCategories:- 2002 albums
- Norman Blake (American musician) albums
- Peter Ostroushko albums
- Red House Records albums
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