The Blues and Whiskey go back since the beginning of whiskey, or would that be the blues. Either way, much like the chicken and the egg, regardless of which came first, the two have never really parted. It has been said that the best medicine for the blues is a fifth of whiskey, drowning the sorrows from a bottle of swirling golden caramel colored liquor that can burn or warm as it makes itself known. But if not for the whiskey, many a blues songs would not have risen out of the minds and souls of entrapment of pain. The whiskey eased the pain and allowed the words to escape, expressing feelings like only the blues can.
I have to put a plug in for a smooth biting, body tingling, warming gem called Connemara. Boy, the blues one could sing after a few dozen shots of that soul medicine. Connemara is a smooth little gem that the Cooley Distillery kicks out. A quite night and a cast of Connemara, a person could write albums worth of blues. Repressed thoughts, memories, lost dreams and desires arise from the elixir as it slowly takes over. So, with blues, although not all are songs of pain and despair, does the blues come first and then the whiskey, or does the whiskey come first then the blues.
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That ain't no cheap booze to be getting the blues with, no matter what comes first!
ReplyDeleteFor those without talent I am sure it is the whiskey! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI will let you know when I finish off this fifth! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI'll take the blues any day but you can keep the whiskey. If anything whiskey clouds the smoothness of the music.
ReplyDeleteI want to meet the man standing after drinking a few dozen shots of Connemara. Come to think of it, after a few dozen shots of anything, if he's standing, I want to meet him!
ReplyDeleteI love the blues. How could anyone not? It's the most intimate type of music there is.
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