Whiskey Before Breakfast
🎙️ 1976
💿 1 Disc
⏱️ 0:00:43:40
🎸 Acoustic
📝 Review Available
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Album & Release Info
Album Title
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Artist
Norman Blake
Recorded Year
1976
Total Discs
1 Disc
Total Length
0:00:43:40
Field / Category
Acoustic
Cover File
G:\Music\Library\Norman Blake\1976 - Whiskey Before Breakfast\cover.jpg
Folder
G:\Music\Library\Norman Blake\1976 - Whiskey Before Breakfast
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Album Review & Notes
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