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Thread #99185   Message #1972901
Posted By: alanabit
19-Feb-07 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: (Heavy) drinking as subject of blues
Subject: RE: (Heavy) drinking as subject of blues
Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat" is a particularly tragic drink song. It makes compulsive drinking sound about as much fun as it actually is. I read somewhere that he actually did have problems. I would not like to speculate about whether it was true.
A lot of drinking lines appear in countless blues songs. "If that river was whisky, I'd be a diving duck...." is just one. There are countless others.