Whiskey Before Breakfast

by Norman Blake

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	10/27/1994
Label:	Rounder
UPC:	0011661006324
Rank:	60430

Tracks

1. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
2. Under the Double Eagle
3. Six White Horses
4. Salt River
5. Old Grey Mare
6. Down at Milow's House
7. Medley
8. Arkansas Traveler
9. The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
10. Medley
11. Church St. Blues
12. Macon Rag
13. Medley
14. Slow Train Through Georgia

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Norman Blake   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Charlie Collins   Guitar
Charles Collins   Guitar

Technical Credits

Josef Franz Wagner   Composer
Nancy Blake   Liner Notes
Norman Blake   Composer,Producer,Performer,Liner Notes
Sundance   Engineer
J.D. Sloan   Photography
Douglas Parker   Cover Design
Traditional   Composer
James A. Bland   Composer