In honor of the impending visit by Mr. Hinson, I’ll be featuring him the first hour of my show tonight. I’ve got an interview I did with him earlier today via telephone coming up at 11:30, and the rest of the hour I’ll be honoring the King of Country and Western Troubadours with some country and western music, as well as his own chart-toppin’ hits… **

Thanks for listening, and drink on up!

** – Unknown Hinson is playing Saturday night, June 21st, at the Canal Club. He’s one of a kind, and utterly brilliant. Check him out!

Unknown Hinson – I Cleaned Out a Room (In My Trailer For You)
Hamburger James – 12 Ounces At a Time
Roger Miller – Chug-a-Lug
Unknown Hinson – Your Man…
Merle Haggard – I Think I’ll Just Sit Here and Drink
Waco Bros. – Drinkin’ and Cheatin’ and Death
Unknown Hinson – Polly Urethane
Hayseed Dixie – Moonshiner’s Daughter
Unknown Hinson – FOggy Windows

INTERVIEW WITH UNKNOWN HINSON

Unknown Hinson – Rock and Roll Is Straight From Hell
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Sunday Morning Coming Down
Sleepy LaBeef – Bottle Up and Go
Charlie Walker – Last Call For Alcohol
Unknown Hinson – I’m the King
Horsehead – Say You’ve Suffered
Boob – It Was Dark, I was Drunk, and I’m Sorry
The Pogues & The Dubliners – The Irish River
The Slickee Boys – Hiccupped to Hell
Teri Clark – I Wish He Was Drinkin’ Whiskey
Stiff Little Fingers – New Drink For the Old Drunk
Bran Van 3000 – Drinkin’ In L.A.
Kiss – Young and Wasted
Motley Crue – Saints of Los Angeles (Gang Vocal Version / Radio Edit)
Unknown Hinson – You Ain’t Callin’ the Law
Red Alert – Blood Sweat and Beers
RPG – Alcohol
Frank Sinatra – Mr. Booze
The Onion Radio Network – North Dakota Drinks Itself To Sleep
Gwar – RagNaRok
Gogol Bordello – When the Trickster Starts a Pokin’
Unknown Hinson – I Quit All That Mess

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… like a 40 of Hurricane! Yay malt liquor! Another week, another whiskey, and few hours of boozin’ songs. Hope you dig it. Setlist follows:

Horsehead – Lost Love Line
Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies
Rev. Horton Heat – It’s Martini Time!
Faith No More – Take This Bottle
Dennis Leary – Traditional Irish Drinking Song
Jerry Reed – Eastbound and Down
The Hellbound Truckers – Drinkin’
Mojo Nixon & Jello Biafra – Drinkin’ With Jesus
Elton John – Honky Cat
They Might Be Giants – Alienation’s For the Rich
The Bloody Irish Boys – Drink, Drink, Drink
Wasp – Blind In Texas
Pub – Cokeshandy
Turbonegro – Wasted Again
Tom Angelripper – Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii
The Ramones – Somebody Put Something In My Drink
Shooter Jennings – Hair of the Dog
The Pogues – Sally Maclennane
Big Bill Broonzy – Good Booze Gonna Carry Me Home
Eef Barzelay – I Wasn’t Really Drunk
Sublime – 40 Oz. To Freedom
Spirit of the West – Home For a Rest
Morphine – SUper Sex
The Hollywood Brats – Little Ole’ Wine Drinker Me
Barenaked Ladies – Alcohol
The Triffids – Once a Day
The Corb Lund Band – Time To Switch To Whiskey
Captain Tractor – A Dublin Lullaby
Merle Haggard – I Think I’ll Just Sit Here and Drink
Machine Chop Inc. – Firestorm

— devlocke

You guys are full of it tonight… in fine form, I say! Hopefully I can keep up. More songs of booze n’ devotion to follow on Richmond’s ONLY show dedicated to alcoholic tunes.

Elvis Presley – We’re Coming In Loaded
Alcoholics Unanimous – Wino Boogie
Coffin Nails – Her Dad Owns a Pub
Bo Weavil Blues – So Loaded
Geoff Berner – The Way That Girl Drinks Beer
Jake Burns – Drinkin’ Again
The Spites – Cheap Beer, Fast Cars, and Girls
Serge Gainsbourg – Intoxicated Man
’68 Comeback – Drinkin’ Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Noman’s Land – Ale
Paul McCartney and Wings – Wino Junko
The Old 97’s – Crash on the Barrelhead
Reel Big Fish – Drinkin’
Los Aragon – Borracho
Great Big Sea – The River Driver
Lee Hazelwood – Drinking Kolsch In Cologne
Vision & Canedy – Loaded
S.M.D. – King of Drunk
Roaring Jack – Uisge Beatha
Joe Ely – Everybody Got Hammered
Jake Burns – Half Past Dead
Defiance Ohio – Drinkin’ Song
Sunnyland Slim – Every Time I Get To Drinkin’
U.S. Bombs – Hammered Again
De Raggende Manne – Beer In Me Kop
The Agitators – The Pub Where I Belong
John M. Hunt – When Jones’s Ale Was New
Janis Joplin – What Good Can Drinkin’ Do?
The Proclaimers – Hate My Love
Lil’ Bob and the Lollipops – I Got Loaded
Peter & the Test Tube Babies – I Still Love the Pub
Hasil Adkins – Drinkin’ My Life Away
Sleepy LaBeef – 16 Tons
Banjo & Sullivan – I’m Home Getting Hammered (She’s Out Getting Nailed)
Marianne Faithful – Conversation On a Bartstool

— devlocke

Remember how I said I’d like to get a full-length version of ’99 Bottles’? The Tennessee band Atticus was kind enough to send me a copy of their second album, Figment. Guess what it’s got on it? Yep. Expect thirteen minutes of live-in-Scotland drunken singalong action around the quarter-to-twelve mark.

Until then, we’re havin’ fun. After then? Yep. More fun. You know me so well.

The Slickee Boys – Ain’t Gettin’ Any
Horsehead – Walk It Off
Sleepy LaBeef – Honky Tonk Man
Arlo Guthrie – St. James Infirmary
John Whipple – Heaven’s Full of Assholes
Waco Brothers – Join the Club
Tuxedomoon – Dark Companion
Drive-By Truckers – Shut Up and Get On the Plane
Rock n’ Roll Soldiers – Barbarian
God Street Wine – Stone House
Whiskey & Co. – Happy Hour
New Order – Morning Night and Day
Atticus – 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
The Business – Guinness Boys
FEAR – I Believe I’ll Have Another Beer
Flannel – Beer of a Thousand Men
Against Me! – Pints of Guinness Make You Stronger
Chris Connelly – Dirtbox Tennessee
Sleepy LaBeef – Drink Up and Go Home
Pat McCurdy – Sex and Beer
Frank Zappa – Titties and Beer
Pigface – I Can Do No Wrong
Lydia Lunch – Hangover Hotel
Amebix – Drink and Be Merry
Buster Poindexter – Who Drank My Beer?
Jim White – God Was Drunk When He Made Me
GG Allin – Darkness and a Bottle To Hold
Richard Thompson – God Loves a Drunk

— devlocke

Every man lives – not every man truly drinks!

If you think about it, it’s even true. Odd. Anyways, we have boozin’ songs tonight. Which is actually true EVERY Monday night, so this is nothin’ special. ‘cept maybe they’re gonna be a bit more aggressive. I ended up running into a bunch of metal and 30-second-long crust-punk tracks, for this week.

Give it a listen. I’m all over the place as usual, so don’t worry that it’s gonna be ALL crazy screamin’ stuff. Just a little bit. Spice things up, y’know? Yeah. God I want a cigarette.

Bob Williams and His Band – Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
Rev. Horton Heat – Sue Jack Daniels
Horsehead – Walk It Off
Forty Thieves Orkestar vs. Mahal Rai Banda – The Man Who Drinks
Fiskales Ad-Hok – Borracho
Sleepy LaBeef – Honky-Tonk Hardwood Floor
Messerschmitt – Jim Beam Boogie Stomp
Freiboiter – Bottle of Beer
The Addicts – Who Spilt My Beer?
Chili Cold Blood – Lock Up the Whiskey
Firewater – El Borracho (Ponzi’s Relapse)
Frank Sikiatora – Borracho y Perdido
Umphrey’s McGee – Andy’s Last Beer
The Eliminators – El Borracho
Daniel Melingo – Muleta de Borracho
Frenetic Trio – Bring Me Another Beer
FEAR – Beerheads
The Paper Chase – Piggy’s Had Too Much Wine
Roach Motel – More Beer
Gamy – Drink Beer
Rocky Bill Ford – Beer Drinking Blues
The Whitlams – God Drinks At the Sando
Drunken Dolly – It’s Raining Beer
James Kochalka Superstar – Beer Dog
Punker Lewis – Tanz des Jim Beam
Barbatos – Satanik Beer
Franky Fearless – I’d Do Anything For Beer
Ray Price – You’re Just Another Beer Drinkin’ Song
The A-Bones – Daddy Wants a Cold Beer
Municipal Waste – Beer Pressure
The Austin Lounge Lizards – Cold Can of Coors Beer
S.C.U.M. – Beer Can Nightmare
Bitterbois – Beer Song
Owen Hart – She Drinks Her Pills and White Russians
Tommy ‘Jim’ Beam – Bay Rum Rock
Burt Larck – Jack Daniels, the Man From Tennessee
A Flock of Seagulls – Budweiser Promo
The Mekons – Gin Palace

— devlocke

Believe it or not, ‘woot!’ was declared the word of 2007 by one of those dictionary people that likes to declare words-of-the-year. Truly, that is a disturbing sign of the times in which we live.

Music about booze continues to flow forth from my fermented fingertips. Enjoy.

Horsehead – Hogtown
Old 97’s – Niteclub
Nuke & the Living Dead – Jack Daniels
The Devil Makes Three – Old Number Seven
Ray Stevens – Jack Daniels, You Lied To Me
Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
Guns n’ Roses – Mama Kin
The Waco Bros. – Nothing At All
The Mekons – I Can’t Find My Money
Rob Tognoni – Jim Beam Blues
Trent Reznor, Peter Murphy, Jeordie White, and Atticus Ross – Niteclubbing
Mezzoforte – We’re Only Here For the Beer
Old 97’s – No Baby I
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – L. A. Noir
Carnivore – Jack Daniels and Pizza
Shane MacGowan and the Popes – Rock n’ Roll Paddy
Panteon Roccoco – Borracho (Drunk Steady Beer)
Boulder Acoustic Society – Drinkin’ Trash
Gogol Bordello – Avenue B
FEAR – The Bud Club
The Supersuckers – Bruises To Prove It
Dropkick Murphys – Wild Rover (feat. Shane MacGowan)
The Damange Manual – Quiet Life
Big D and the Kid’s Table – Steady Riot
Heartbreak Engine – But If I’m Too Drunk
The Triffids – Vagabond Holes
LenBias – Forties and Nines
The Number 12 Looks Like You – Bambi the Hooker and a Case of Beer
Slim Dusty – My Pal Alcohol
Bruce Willis – Turn It Up
Mudcrutch – Six Days On the Road

— devlocke

I just read this thoroughly amusing semi-bio of Hasil Adkins, and felt it needed to be shared with the world.

Billy Miller relates war stories of touring with Adkins when he was on parole for a weapons violation involving a typical backwoods shoot-out over a girl in which the offending parties were too drunk to hit each other with sawed-off shotguns. The very first piece of Norton Records stationery ever issued was a note pleading with a judge in West Virginia to allow Adkins to keep working and practicing. The judge fired back a note that read, “Oh, Hasil don’t need no practice.”

Great stories about a great dude I never heard of ’till today.

— devlocke

At some point, after I get through all this stuff I pulled at random from the New Music shelves, I’ll be playing a bunch of stuff off the first four or five Mekons albums. I just discovered them, thanks to a CD by the (related project) Waco Bros. that the station tossed, and I’m a big fan. You probably will be too, after tonight. 🙂

But first, I scoured the New Rock shelves for stuff that might be about booze and I found a decent number of tracks to play. I suspect some of them will be garbage, but we’ll have a lot of fun finding out, right? Right? Glad you’re with me. Let’s go!

(Click ‘Read More’ to see the setlist)

Sleepy LaBeef – Ballad of Thunder Road
Waco Bros. – Come A Long Way
Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Another Bottle
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Albert Goes West
Jonathan Richman – Our Party Will Be On the Beach Tonight
Thee Oh Sees – Graveyard Drug Party
No Age – Brain Burner
This Is Ivy League – The Richest Kids In Town
Sleepy LaBeef – Cigarette and Coffee Blues
Lemuria – Buzz
M83 – Kim and Jessie
The Bellrays – One Big Party
Jim Noir – Welcome Commander Jameson
Clinic – Shopping Bag
Onkel Tom Angelripper – Medley 1, 2, 3

The Mekons – What Are We Going To Do Tonight? *
The Mekons – St. Patrick’s Day @
The Mekons – Trevira Trousers*
The Mekons – Hello Cruel World &
The Mekons – Trouble Down South %
The Mekons – After 6 *
The Mekons – I Can’t Find My Money $
The Mekons – Oblivion &
The Mekons – Chivalry %
The Mekons – Dan Dare *
The Mekons – Memphis, Egypt ~
The Mekons – The Trimden Grange Explosion @
The Mekons – The Trimden Grange Explosion $
The Mekons – Heaven and Back ~

* = The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen (1979)
@ = The Mekons (1980)
% = Fear and Whiskey (1985)
& = The Edge of the World (1986)
$ = Honky Tonkin’ (1987)
~ = The Mekons Rock n’ Roll

— devlocke

99 bottles of beer on the wall… take one down, a’ight? I should look for a full-length version of that song. Someone has to have done one. It would be great for a cigarette break. Or ten. Tonight, we’re runnin’ the gamut again. I think I use that phrase too much, but I really like the word ‘gamut’ so I’m leaving it in. Punk, metal, crust, alt-country, regular country, hybrids of the above, reggae recorded in Japan… and some good ole’ home-grown RVA music of various genres.

Drink up, for tomorrow ye may die. Or tonight, even. Who knows?

‘Read More’ for the setlist.

Horsehead – Hogtown
Dirtball – Over and Over
John Whipple – Last Call Mixup
Duh – Spaghetti & Red Wine
Ugly Law – Good Life
Os Catileptico – Blood For Wine
The Mekons – Dance and Drink With the Mekons
Siobhan – The Monday Night Drinking Song
Hank Williams III – Smoke and Wine
Hank Williams III – Drinkin’ Wine Spodeeodee (Live)
Government Issue – Strange Wine
Siobhan – I Got Drunk In Europe
Family – Drowned In Wine
Sleepy LaBeef – Bottle Up and Go
Agnes & Ripperton – Tchung Beers
Sleep LaBeef – Rip It Up
Cadillac Blindside – 3 Week Bender
Delbert McClinton – Two More Bottles of Wine
The Kingstonians – A Little More Wine
Valle Valo & Natalia Avalon – Summer Wine
The Hollies – Dandelion Wine
Derek and the Dominoes – Bottle of Red Wine
The Mekons – Give Me Wine Or Money
Ian Hunter – All the Way From Memphis
Whiskey & Co. – A Drink For You
Otis Redding – Champagne and Wine
Mary Gauthier – I Drink
Rebel Meets Rebel – No Compromise
Great Big Sea – The Night Pat Murphy Died
Eddie Spaghetti – Killer Weed

— devlocke

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Cool? Cool. Lotsa good drinkin’ music for you tonight. Enjoy. The setlist will be posted below as I figure out what I’m gonna play.

The Supersuckers – Good Night For My Drinkin’
Waco Brothers – Drinkin’ & Cheatin’ & Death
Horsehead – Walk It Off
The Slickee Boys – Jailbait Janet
Rev. D-Ray and the Shockers – Jailbait Baby
Octane Saints – Jailbait
Transglobal Underground – Drinking In Gomorrah
The Petshop Boys – You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
Manowar – Brothers of Metal
Concrete Blonde – Happy Birthday
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Irish Whiskey
The Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – My Old Man Boogie
Spirit of the West – Home For a Rest
Tom Angelripper – Es Gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii
Morphine – Super Sex
Yellow Note vs. Pukka – Naked, Drunk, and Horny
Bran Van 3000 – Drinkin’ In L.A.
Corb Lund Band – Time To Switch To Whiskey
Fear – I Believe I’ll Have Another Beer
D12 – 40 Oz.
Dropkick Murphys – Dirty Glass
The Ramones – We’re A Happy Family (Live)
Ministry – Road House Blues
Bad Religion – Drunk Sincerity
The Scotch Greens – Drinkin’ By the River
Shane MacGowan – Cracklin’ Rosie
Pop A Chubby – Smuggler’s Game
Swingin’ Utters – Dead Flowers, Bottles, Blue Grass, and Bones

— devlocke