Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: February 06, 1996
Total Time: 64:06
Type: Collection (various artists)
Genre: Blues
Review
Booze & the Blues is a thoroughly entertaining collection of 22 pre-war blues songs about wine, drinking, whiskey
and blues. It's a gimmicky excuse for a collection, but it works, not only because the songs and performances are
good, but because the tracks all have a similar spirit. Among the highlights are tracks by Memphis Minnie, Mississippi
Sheiks, Robert Hicks, the Memphis Jug Band, Amos Easton, Lucille Bogan, Peetie Wheatstraw and Joshua White. ~
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Tracks
Track Title Composers Performers Time
You Drink Too Much State Street Swingers State Street Swingers (3:13)
Cherry Wine Woman Charley Jordan (2:50)
Drunken Barrel House Blues Kansas Joe McCoy Memphis Minnie (2:49)
Bootlegger's Blues Mississippi Sheiks Mississippi Sheiks (3:31)
Me and My Whiskey Robert Hicks (3:06)
Bug Juice Blues Kid Prince Moore (2:38)
Rock and Rye Charlie Spand (2:36)
Rukus Juice and Chittlin' Memphis Jug Band (2:50)
Bad Whiskey Blues Merline Johnson (2:34)
I Keep on Drinkin (To Drive My Blues Away), Pt. I Amos Easton (3:03)
I Keep on Drinkin (To Drive My Blues Away), Pt. II Amos Easton (3:08)
Moonshine by the Keg Bill Gaither Bill Gaither (2:43)
Drinking Blues Lucille Bogan Lucille Bogan (2:54)
More Good Whiskey Blues Peetie Wheatstraw (2:59)
Pigmeat and Whiskey Blues Joshua "Pinetree Tom" White (3:00)
Give Me Another Shot Casey Bill Weldon (2:42)
When I Been Drinking Rosetta Howard (2:50)
Corn Liquor Blues Lewis Black (2:53)
Canned Heat Blues Sloppy Henry (3:07)
When I Been Drinking Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy (2:50)
Blackberry Wine Jack Newman (2:46)
Drinking Shine (3:04)
