Within the theme songs about drinking, there is an entire sub-theme songs about moonshine. Drinking Song #26 is Copperhead Road by Steve Earle Then there’s Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey, Drinking Song #27. Here’s Moonshiner performed by Uncle Tupelo – Drinking Song #28 Finally, here… Read More
Drinking song #25 on our ever expanding list is a country tune called Pop a Top, performed by Jim Ed Brown.
My friend East Texas Red pointed me to this link, a TED talk featuring Eben Bayer. He’s the co-inventor of something called Myco-bond. Essentially, these guys are creating biodegradable packing materials using agri-waste and mycelium. They have a process for cleaning and preparing the agri-waste,… Read More
Here’s Drinking Song #24, It was the Whiskey Talkin, Not Me. This isn’t the version I was looking for. There’s another one that starts out as a country tune but features some Dixieland style horns. However, beggers can’t be choosers. Here’s The Killer:
I just finished reading Solomon Gursky was Here by Mordecai Richler. I didn’t read it when it was first published. In fact, this is the first of Richler’s books I’ve read. How is it I bypassed every novel by one of Canada’s best writers? I… Read More
Lots of thunder and lightning around Anchovy World Headquarters this morning, and yes, some rain actually fell.
This one had to come around on the guitar eventually. Drinking Song #23 is Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett.
In 1987, I was living and working in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave. here in Toronto. It was once a hardware store and had pegboard walls, which made for excellent walls for a painting studio. I fixed up the place so I had a… Read More
After just the other day acknowledging the passing of Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly and Elwy Yost, I see the news all over the innernets today is that troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has checked out. News reports say her death is unexplained but the public… Read More
Drinking Song #22 is called Champagne Charlie. Let’s go back to 1932 and Blind Blake: This tune actually goes further back to 1862. Wikipedia suggests: Champagne Charlie is a music hall song from the 19th century composed by Alfred Lee with lyrics by George Leybourne.… Read More
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