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Show 17: Booze and the Blues Tradition
Drinking songs are one of the blues’ oldest houses, and this show walks right through it. The tracks are grouped to show how liquor in blues can mean joy, swagger, ruin, escape, or all four at once.
Host Narration
For today's seventeenth episode of the CC Blues Show, we will be focusing on the theme of Booze Blues, that is, two hours of rhythm and booze, I mean blues, tracks pertaining to beverages of the alcoholic variety, songs detailing the effects, both pleasurable and perilous, that drink inspires. Up first is Floyd Dixon's "Hey Bartender," Mr. Magnificent Dixon's "Hey Bartender." This song was made exceptionally famous by Blues Brothers Jake and Elwood and played a major role in making Dixon comfortable for the rest of his life. Here it is.
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Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hey, Bartender | Floyd Dixon |
| 2 | Let Me Go Home, Whiskey | Amos Milburn |
| 3 | Vicious, Vicious Vodka | Amos Milburn |
| 4 | Whiskey Women And Loaded Dice | Stick McGhee |
| 5 | The Bartender Is Just Like a Mother | Slim Gaillard |
| 6 | Booze And Blues | Ma Rainey |
| 7 | Booze Blues | Roosevelt Sykes |
| 8 | Walking' And Drinkin' | Roosevelt Sykes |
| 9 | Drunken Gambler Blues | Roosevelt Sykes |
| 11 | Quiet Whiskey bridge | Wynonie Harris |
| 12 | I Ain't Drunk | Jimmy Liggins |
| 13 | Drunk Again | Champion Jack Dupree |
| 14 | Beer Drinking Woman | Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon |
| 15 | Keep Drinkin' | Little Brother Montgomery |
| 16 | Whisky | Piano Red |
| 17 | Every Time I Get To Drinking | Sunnyland Slim |
| 18 | When I Been Drinking | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 19 | Alcohol and Jake Blues bridge | Tommy Johnson |
| 20 | Alcoholic Blues bridge | Sonny Terry |
| 21 | I Got Loaded | Peppermint Harris |
| 22 | Drinking Woman | John Brim |
| 23 | Sittin' Here Drinkin' | Christine Kittrell |
| 24 | Sloppy Drunk Blues | Bumble Bee Slim |
| 25 | Whiskey Head Woman | Tommy McClennan |
| 26 | Wine, Women, Whiskey | Papa Lightfoot |
| 28 | One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer | John Lee Hooker |
| 29 | Bring Another Half a Pint | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 30 | Sloppy Drunk | Jimmy Rogers |
| 31 | Sittin' Drinkin' and Thinkin' | Little Junior Parker |
| 32 | Sittin' Here And Drinkin' | Muddy Waters |
| 33 | Runnin' Drunk | George Wild Child" Butler" |
| 34 | Too Much Alcohol | J.B. Hutto and His Hawks |
| 36 | Booze in the Bottle | Carter Brothers |
| 37 | Whiskey River | Willie Nelson |
| Drinkin' C. V. Wine Blues | Howlin' Wolf | |
| One Mint Julep | The Clovers | |
| Summertime | Billy Stewart | |
| What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again) | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |