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The laconic singer-guitarist Norman Blake has recorded with Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan and more recently has had songs featured in film soundtracks like Oh Brother Where Art Thou. On projects both high- and low-profile, Blake has spent a career reveling in the antediluvian strains of rural, pre-World War II Americana. Here, Blake and his wife and longtime collaborator Nancy (vocals and cello) serve up 17 songs that come from the repertoires of the Carter Family, the Blue Sky Boys, Uncle Dave Macon, and more obscure country artists of the prewar era. Once again, the Blakes show their uncanny penchant for reviving dusty musical relics and making them sparkle all over again. --Bob Allen