Whiskey Before Breakfast
Norman Blake |
 Released 1976
Blake's best album, and one of the finest bluegrass albums of the '70s. "Church St. Blues" and "Slow Train Through Georgia" are great originals that demonstrate Blake's natural ease with a sung ballad, while the fabulous medleys "Sleepy Eyed Joe/Indian Creek" and "Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast" show off the graceful flat-picking that made him famous. All told, there have been many albums in the folk idiom featuring many a guitar virtuoso, but very few achieve such a mix of relaxed subtlety and eye-popping virtuosity, and Whiskey Before Breakfast will perhaps stand as the greatest achievement by this master picker. ~ Jim Smith, All Music Guide
TRACKS 1. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
2. Under the Double Eagle
3. Six White Horses
4. Salt River
5. Old Grey Mine
6. Down at Milow's House
7. Sleepy Eyed Joe/Indian Creek
8. Arkansas Traveler
9. The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
10. The Minstrel Boy to the War Has Gone/The Ash Grove
11. Church Street Blues
12. Macon Rag
13. Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast
14. Slow Train Through Georgia
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