To: BluesDuke
I know John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". I'll look for the others.
To: Dan from Michigan
"Drinkin' Wine, Spo-De-O-Dee" appears in the box set, Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, 1947-74; Mike Bloomfield's re-arrangement appears on the Electric Flag's A Long Time Comin'. Both the Robert Johnson numbers are on The Complete Recordings. Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat Blues" is almost impossible to find; I know the song through the book Chasin' That Devil Music, which featured a special CD that included it, but it's out of print now. "Whiskey and Wimmin," there must be about a dozen versions of it by John Lee alone (he was kind of the Duke Ellington of the blues, in terms of incessantly re-recording/re-making many of his signature numbers).
To: Dan from Michigan
A classic drinking blues I neglected to list: Ray Charles, "Let's Go Get Stoned" (in the earlier 1960s, "stoned" didn't yet mean on, er, whacky tobacky...)
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