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Saturday December 5th, 2015 with DJ Ben & Oddball
The End Of Prohibition

33 songs about booze and drinking to mark the official end of prohibition in the USA on December 5, 01933.
The Beerhunter
Bob & Doug McKenzie - Take Off - Anthem (01981) Canadian
Too Drunk Too Fuck
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague - Peacefrog (02004)
Chicken And Booze
Jackie Mittoo and The Soul Brothers - Last Train To Skaville - Soul Jazz (01967, 02003)
Long Neck Bottles
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot - Reprise (01972)
Drunk Man
Eddie Harris - Excursions - Atlantic (01973)
Gin & Juice
The Gourds - Shinebox - Sugar Hill (02001)
Only When I'm Drunk
Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over - Loud (01993)
The Drunk
James Brown - 7" - Bethlehem (01970)
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Motörhead - 7" - Big Beat (01977, 01980)
Six Pack
Black Flag - Damaged - SST (01981, 01984)
Drunken Butterfly
Sonic Youth - Dirty - Geffen (01992)
The Drinking Song
Gary Bartz NTU Troop - Freedom Rhythm & Sound - Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82 - Soul Jazz (01971, 02009)
Volstead O Vodeo Do
Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships - United Artists (01975)
Drunk Again
Russel Jenkins Jazz Express (Madlib) - High Jazz - Madlib Invazion (02010)
Gin House Blues
Nina Simone - Nuff Said - RCA (01968)
Rehab
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black - Universal (02006)
Punch Drunk
Combustible Edison - Four Rooms - Elektra (01995)
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - Island (01985)
To Hell With Poverty
Gang Of Four - The Peel Sessions - Strange Fruit (01981, 01990)
Tied Up In Nottz
Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit - Harbinger (02014)
Drunk Girls
LCD Soundsystem - 7" - DFA (02010)
Beercan
Beck - Mellow Gold - Geffen (01994)
8 Ball (Remix)
NWA - Straight Outta Compton - Ruthless (01988)
Alligator Wine
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy - Edsel (01958, 01982)
Booze Party
3 Aces & A Joker - Songs The Cramps Taught Us Volume 4 - Cato (01960, 02010)
I Like Beer
Tom T. Hall - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 - Mercury (01975)
Let's Go Get Stoned
Ray Charles - Greatest Hits, Volume 1 - Rhino (01966, 01988)
40 Oz.
Linus Pauling Quartet - All Things Are Light - Camera Obscura (02007)
Bootleg
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country - Fantasy (01969)
I Got Drunk
Buddy Lucas & His Orchestra - 7" - Groove (01954)
Bar Tender
Laurel Aitken & The Blue Beats - The History Of Blue Beat - The Birth Of Ska - Not Now (01961, 02012)
Tom Drunk
U-Roy & Hopeton Lewis - 200% Dynamite! - Soul Jazz (01971, 01999)
The Gin House Blues
Bessie Smith - Nobody's Blues But Mine - Columbia (01926, 01972)
Interactive CKCU
Elron
So, like...Ben's in one ear...and B-Roy's in the other, eh...

8:22 PM, December 5th, 2015
Etienne
woo hoo! Go Gentle Ben!

8:33 PM, December 5th, 2015
Etienne
woo hoo! Go Gentle Ben!

8:33 PM, December 5th, 2015
Jas
Great show as usual!! Love that version of Gin house blues by Nina Simone.

9:01 PM, December 5th, 2015
Elron
So, like, I'm completely hosed now...you guys are blowin' the floor...I like beer too

9:44 PM, December 5th, 2015