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- Whiskey Before Breakfast
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Norman Blake
Released 1976

Salt River
01:39
964 plays

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
03:28
931 plays

Church St. Blues
02:55
507 plays

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- 1
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
- 03:28
- 931 plays

- 2
- Under The Double Eagle
- 02:44
- 471 plays

- 3
- Six White Horses
- 05:00
- 446 plays

- 4
- Salt River
- 01:39
- 964 plays

- 5
- Old Grey Mare
- 03:31
- 398 plays

- 6
- Down At Milow's House
- 01:20
- 338 plays

- 7
- Sleepy Eyed Joe/Indian Creek
- 03:38
- 324 plays

- 8
- Arkansas Traveler
- 03:04
- 502 plays

- 9
- The Girl I Left Sunny Tennessee
- 02:54
- 296 plays

- 10
- The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone/The Ash Grove
- 03:02
- 298 plays

- 11
- Church St. Blues
- 02:55
- 507 plays

- 12
- Macon Rag
- 02:44
- 303 plays

- 13
- Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast
- 03:34
- 482 plays

- 14
- Slow Train Through Georgia
- 04:07
- 483 plays

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album review

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