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Episode 31 "Pass The Bottle"
ListenIn this musical pub-crawl, we explore the joys and perils of the drinking life; songs about beer, wine, whiskey and moonshine; sad drunks, mad drunks, mean drunks, and just plain stupid drunks; booze-soaked classics from Memphis Slim, Roscoe Holcomb, Lead Belly, Dock Boggs, and more. Tapestry of the Times: Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds...
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Little Brother Montgomery
Album:
Blues
Track #2, Vicksburg 44
Memphis Slim
Album:
Memphis Slim: The Folkways Years, 1959-1973
Track: #
7, Beer-Drinking Woman
Coley Jones
Album:
Anthology of American Folk Music: Volume One, Ballads
Disc #1, Track #4, Drunkard’s Special
Lead Belly
Album:
Lead Belly’s Last Sessions
Disc #4, Track #15, Sugared the Beer
Lonnie Johnson
Album:
Lonnie Johnson: The Complete Folkways Recordings
Track: #
#12, Juice Headed Baby
Victoria Spivey
Album:
The Blues is Life
Track: #
8, My Head is Bad – An Alcohol Blues
J.D. Short
Album:
Son House & J.D. Short
Track: #
1, So Much Wine
Laverne Smith
Album:
His and Hers
Track: #
8, One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Snooks Eaglin
Album:
Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer
Track: #
7, Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
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Aaron Henkin is the creator and host of 'Tapestry of the Times.' He's also a co-creator and producer of WYPR's weekly cultural program, The Signal. Aaron's reports and features have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Day to Day, and PRI's Studio 360 and The World. He's a regular guest-host on the American Public Media program The Story. He's also the curator and host of a weekly podcast called The NPR Station Showcase with PRX