[This was harder to do an ocean away.] So we basically brought a guitar each, and that was it, ... Which was good, actually. -Norman Blake

 

[This was harder to do an ocean away.] So we basically brought a guitar each, and that was it, ... Which was good, actually.


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We're pretty happy with the level of success we have now.

Norman Blake

With some of our previous records, we had songs with 14 vocal tracks and three pianos. We just wanted to strip some of that back and make a record we could (easily reproduce) live. And we achieved that. We were just in London and played the album from start to finish.

Norman Blake

There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments.

Norman Blake

On the other hand, there's never pressure on one person to come up with an album's worth of songs every year, ... We only have to concentrate on four or five songs each. It's something we're all comfortable with; some other people wouldn't be. We're not very confrontational people; we like things to go smoothly.

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Norman Blake