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Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?

I'm putting together a themed playlist of songs based on drinking / booze.  I'm sure I'm missing some classics but this is what I have so far.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

Willie Nelson -  Old Wiskey River                   Whiskey River
Bernadette Seacrest and her Provocateurs -  
The Filthy South Sessions                       G-d's Been Drinking
Dinah Washington -  Dinah '62                       Drinking Again
Drive-By Truckers -  Brighter Than Creation's Dark           Daddy Needs A Drink
Jimmy Buffett -  Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes      Margaritaville
Mark Knopfler -  Tracker                       Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
Mary Gauthier -  Drag Queens in Limousines               I Drink
Joe Cocker -  I Can Stand A Little Rain               Guilty
Tom Waits -  Bounced Checks                     The Piano Has Been Drinking
Van Morrison -  What's Wrong With This Picture?           Stop Drinking
ZZ Top -  Tres Hombres                       Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Richard Thompson -  Mirror Blue CD1                   Beeswing
Gillian Welch -  Hell Among The Yearlings               Whiskey Girl
Honeyhoney -  Billy Jack                       Let's Get Wrecked
Jimmie Vaughan -  Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites      Bad Bad Whiskey
Lori Mckenna -  The Bird & The Rifle                   If Whiskey Were A Woman
Los Lobos -  Kiko                           Whiskey Trail
My Brightest Diamond -  Tear it Down CD02               Disappear (Wheat to Whiskey Mix by Cedar AV)
Button Down Brass -  Baby Driver  soundtrack             Tequila
Ray Charles -  True Genius                       One Mint Julep
Rising Sons -  Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder      If the River Was Whiskey (Divin' Duck Blues)
Rita Coolidge -  The Lady's Not For Sale               Whiskey Whiskey
Steely Dan -  Aja                           Deacon Blues
Uncle Tupelo -  No Depression CD1                   Whiskey Bottle (Live Acoustic)
Punch Brothers -  Another Day Another Time -             Rye Whiskey
Tom Waits -  Nighthawks At The Diner                   Warm Beer & Cold Women
George Thorogood & The Destroyers -
Greatest Hits: 30 Yrs Of Rock                     One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Honeyhoney -  Billy Jack                       Thin Line
Live at the Jester Lounge -  Townes Van Zandt               Talkin' Thunderbird Blues
Amanda Palmer -  Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under           Bad Wine and Lemon Cake (feat. The Jane Austen Argument)
Amy Winehouse -  Back To Black                   Rehab
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans -  
The Complete Tony Bennett Bill Evans Recordings (CD1)          The Days Of Wine And Roses
Billy Boy Arnold -  Eldorado Cadillac                   Sunday Morning Blues
Cowboy Junkies -  Open                       Bread And Wine
Ella Fitzgerald -  Quadromania Disc 1 (1941-1946)           And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
Emmylou Harris -  Pieces Of The Sky                Bluebird Wine
Heart -  Dreamboat Annie                      White Lightning And Wine
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker -Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour      Water To Wine
Neil Diamond -  Hot August Night CD1                   Red Red Wine
Eagles -  Desperado                           Tequila Sunrise
Steely Dan -  Aja                           Black Cow

 

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dnb4
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Red Hot Women And Ice Cold Beer, Primary, 1 of 4

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I’ve known and played with a coupla guys who drank themselves to death. In 2001 I did an album (Moontan) with Evan Johns, recorded in Atlanta, Georgia. We (his band on the album) checked into the hotel a day after Evan had arrived, and the next morning we passed his room on the way to the studio, and outside his door were two empty 18-packs of Budweiser cans. I had heard about his drinking, but that’s a lotta damn beer! Evan drank Budweiser non-stop the entire week, eating a meal only once.

One day on a break between songs, Evan and I retired to the dirt lot behind the studio (to share a Jazz cigarette), and he said to me "Drinking’s not a problem, as long as you stay away from the hard stuff." Well, as the album was being mixed and a USA tour was being set up, Evan was one day not feeling well. He went to the emergency room in British Vancouver (where he was living), and after being admitted fell into a coma. The docs told his woman to start making funeral arrangements, Evan was in the final stage of liver failure.

Evan fooled them again! We learned this was the third time it had happened, and after a few weeks he just sat up one day and asked where his guitar was. He fully recovered, but made it to only sixty years of age, dying in Austin Texas in 2017. A maniac Telecaster player!

The other guy was also a talented guitarist (you wouldn’t recognize his name), from the Santa Cruz, California area. When his bassist (a member of Los Straitjackets for the past quarter Century) and I shared a house with him in North Hollywood in late-1978, I witnessed him start his days with a few Vodka’s-on-the-rocks for breakfast. At night it was the same for dinner. He made it to only his late-30’s. He was the orneriest SOB I’ve ever known, a real mean drunk.

 

jssmith
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Anything by the band Tankard.

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bdp24
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I just remembered "Whiskey Train" by Procol Harum.

 

dickface
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I'm a little late to this party but I suggest this, Zac Brown band song Castaway if you haven't heard it, give it a listen. Cheers

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