Whiskey Before Breakfast

by Norman Blake

Whiskey Before Breakfast cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Rounder
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:43
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The master flatpicker delivers an essential acoustic session that bridges traditional old-time string music with highly advanced instrumental technique. Playing completely solo, his immaculate guitar and mandolin work breathes new life into centuries-old folk melodies while presenting his own remarkably poetic original compositions.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, ballad, technical, melodic, folk, instrumental, traditional, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (3:28)
  2. Under The Double Eagle (2:44)
  3. Six White Horses (5:00)
  4. Salt River (1:39)
  5. Old Grey Mare (3:31)
  6. Down At Mylow's House (1:20)
  7. Sleepy Eyed Joe/ Indian Creek (3:38)
  8. Arkansas Traveler (3:04)
  9. The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee (2:54)
  10. The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone / The Ash Grove (3:02)
  11. Church St. Blues (2:55)
  12. Macon Rag (2:44)
  13. Fiddler's Dram / Whiskey Before Breakfast (3:34)
  14. Slow Train Through Georgia (4:07)

Credits

  • Norman Blake - primary artist, guitar, vocals [uncredited], written-by
  • Charlie Collins - guitar [2nd guitar]
  • Nancy Blake - sleeve notes
  • Traditional - written-by [uncredited]

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