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Whiskey Before Breakfast<\/strong> is a great old fiddle tune. Years ago it seemed like everybody was recording it. I remember having albums by different artists with various arrangements of the tune. It has certainly become an acoustic standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember trying to learn it on the guitar, off a Norman Blake album. I had been visiting my sisters in Boulder, Colorado and purchased the album in a little record store downtown, along with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will the Circle be Unbroken”. At the time, both those records were impossible to find back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The album title was “Whiskey Before Breakfast”<\/strong>, but it didn’t really seem like the featured song on the record. It was actually the second tune in a two-tune set. In the end, I gave up on it. I was more a finger-picker than a flatpicker. I did come away with something, but it didn’t sound anything like Blake’s arrangement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on, I did figure out a respectable version on banjo, and more recently adapted it to mandolin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tune<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I always thought “Whiskey Before Breakfast” was a traditional Irish tune. It would seem that may not be the case. In fact, the tune has been attributed it to the late, great Canadian Metis fiddler Andy DeJarlis<\/strong>. I do know that he recorded the tune on more than one album, and I understand he originally recorded it under a different name (Ok, I read that part on the internet). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, DeJarlis wrote a lot of other great fiddle tunes as well, like “The Buckskin Reel<\/a>“, “Sitting Bull”, “Caribou Reel<\/a>“, “Louis Riel”… and a good number of waltzes and jigs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, have a listen to “Whiskey Before Breakfast” on the mandolin at 150 bpm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mandolin Tab for the Bluegrass tune “Whiskey Before Breakfast”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“Whiskey Before Breakfast” can also be found in the Fiddler’s Fake Book<\/strong>. It’s on page 290 of my copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope you enjoy the arrangement. Please feel free to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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