The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs is “Drinking Songs,” songs about drinking, about drink, or about the effects of drinking.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Grandma’s Rules for Drinking Annie Lou - Grandma’s Rules for Drinking - Annie Lou
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| Sussex Drinking Song Finest Kind - Lost in a Song - Fallen Angle
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| In Praise of Alcohol David Parry - The Man from Eldorado: Songs and Stories of Robert W. Service - Borealis
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| Nancy Whiskey Joni Mitchell - Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) - Rhino
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| I'm a Rover and Seldom Sober Sandy & Caroline Paton - The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene - Smithsonian Folkways 
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| Garnet’s Home-Made Beer Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green - From Different Angels - Fallen Angle
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| Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Stick McGhee - New York Blues and R&B - JSP |
| One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Backwater Blues - Fantasy |
| Whiskey Before Breakfast Gina Forsyth - Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales - Waterbug |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Red Wine at Noon Rosalie Sorrels - Always a Lady - Green Linnet |
| Little Glass of Wine Kathy Mattea - Pretty Bird - Captain Potato
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| Bottle of Wine Tom Paxton & The DonJuans - Live - Pax |
| Who Drank My Beer (While I was in the Rear)? Buster Poindexter - Buster's Happy Hour - Rhino |
| Whiskey Evening Maria Dunn - For a Song - Distant Whisper Music
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| Whiskey Stone Blues Russ Kelley - In Plain Sight - Ark Road Music Productions
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| She Drinks Lynn Miles - We’ll Look for Stars - Must Have Music
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| Having a Drink with Jane Shelley Posen - The Old Songs’ Home - Well Done Music
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| Barrelhouse Blues Penny Lang - Live at the Yellow Door - She-Wolf
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| Moonshiner John McCutcheon - Bucket List - Appalseed
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| Sweet Blindness Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Columbia/Legacy |
| Eastern Beer Tom Mitchell - 1976 live recording – used with permission |
| Alabama Song Dave Van Ronk - Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht - Flying Fish |
| Last Call David Massengill - Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk - Gadfly |
| The Parting Glass Miranda Mulholland - By Appointment or Chance - Roaring Girl
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| I Drink Mary Gauthier - Live at Blue Rock - In the Black |
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Enjoying your Drinking Songs Mike. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
10:18 AM, October 10th, 2021