Down at the club
MY lifelong fondness for licensed premises possibly derives from the fact that my home town was named after a pub. Nelson, Lancashire, did not exist until the mid-19th century. The area … Continue readingDown at the club
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Leo Kottke: Sonora’s Death Row
As anyone who has read Malcolm Lowry’s nightmarish novel Under The Volcano will attest, mezcal is a drink not to be messed with. Leo’s is one of many versions of … Continue readingLeo Kottke: Sonora’s Death Row
Mario Lanza: Drink! Drink! Drink!
Suggested by Andy Marshall, this is from the 1954 film of the Student Prince. Edmund Purdom is miming to the voice of Mario Lanza.
Kiss: Cold Gin
A typically understated 1974 live performance from the US crooners. They don’t make them like that any more. Thankfully.
Sheep Hater of the Week
THE ‘rewilding’ mania is becoming more worrying and more sinister. Until fairly recently it was easy to laugh at the crazy idea of bringing beavers back to Britain some centuries … Continue readingSheep Hater of the Week
The Pogues: Streams of Whiskey
I have to say that Shane MacGowan isn’t the best advert for the hard stuff. Here he is staggering on to the stage in Paris, 2012, when he was only … Continue readingThe Pogues: Streams of Whiskey
Hank Williams Jr: Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
Hard to find a country singer with a good word to say about the hard stuff. Cheers!
Brad Paisley: Whiskey Lullaby
You get a proper little fillum with this country tearjerker from 2004, with Paisley ably assisted on vocals by Alison Krauss.
There was a young man from Dundee . . .
MEMOIRS of a grim childhood in working-class Dundee are hardly my normal reading matter. However a raft of enthusiastic reviews led me to invest in Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson. … Continue readingThere was a young man from Dundee . . .
Professor Longhair: Rum and Coca-Cola
Following yesterday’s version by the Andrews Sisters, here’s an instrumental performance in which the Prof (1918-1980) manages to make his piano give a good impression of steel drums.