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In these shows, I share some of my favorite poetry with musical interludes.

Episode 21: The Drinking Age

30 Monday Mar 2015

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This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 31, 2015. In this episode, Spilling Rubies turns 21 episodes! So we decided, since we are now of legal drinking age in California, to celebrate all things drunk! Please enjoy music, poetry and more…

Songs played:

  • My Old Drunk Friend by Freakwater (1993)
  • Drunkard’s Special by Coley Jones (1929)
  • I’m Not Drinking, Hm Hm by Ed’s Redeeming Qualities (1991)
  • Between the Bars by Madeleine Peyroux (2004)
  • Drinking You In by The Duke Spirit (2003)
  • Sober Driver by Dengue Fever (2013)
  • Oh, Gin [demo version] by The Velvet Underground (1970)
  • What Good Can Drinkin’ Do? [live] by Janis Joplin (1962)
  • Drunken Angel by Lucinda Williams (1998)
  • One Mint Julep by Louis Prima & Keely Smith (1958)
  • What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober? by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (1946)
  • You Better Quit Drinking Shine by Rev. I.B. Ware and his wife and son (1928) from American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
  • Drunk Kid Catholic by Bright Eyes [aka Conor Oberst] (2001)
  • The Drinks We Drank Last Night by Azure Ray (2003)
  • Drinker’s Peace by Guided by Voices [aka Robert Pollard] (1990)

Poems read:

  • Compulsively Allergic to the Truth by Jeffrey McDaniel (2008)
  • Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
  • The Summer House by Tony Connor (1978)
  • A Drinking Song by W.B. Yeats (1912)

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