Death List

Posted on January 17, 2012 by chinaski

I’m starting a new play list on the bourbonhours site which I’m calling my “Death List”. Ten songs that I would play at my own funeral, should I have the privilege. Tonight I’m adding song number one, which has little to do with bourbon, less with death, and even less with anything I know personally in terms of actual experience. It’s a vibe is all, and I do love the soaring bagpipe solo that departs for the outer planetoids at about two minutes of the song. I heard it last night for the first time in years and just have to go with it.

Chinaski’s Death List:

1) Mull of Kintyre – Paul McCartney and Wings

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Wall of Hillbilly Sound Takes Me South

Posted on July 30, 2011 by chinaski

Adding to the bourbon playlist. This song is simply spectacular: Northfield, by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention which we have in our collection thanks to the Appalachians disc that we picked up some years ago. It was the soundtrack of a PBS series by the same name.

I don’t really know the music but I know the genre and the genre is bourbon. It reminds me of polyphony and I once described polyphony as “the new bourbon”, although i probably wasn’t completely sober when i made that allusion. Here’s a video of a choral group singing this soaring piece:

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Bourbonhours Plays Blackjack With Townes

Posted on April 5, 2011 by chinaski

I’m adding Townes Van Zandt’s “Black Jack Mama” from In the Beginning to the Bourbonhours playlist. This is a genius riff on Bob Dylan’s genius riff “From a Buick 6″ off of Highway 61 Revisited and it is truly wicked stuff.I think I prefer Townes’ version although they both stack up pretty nicely juxtaposed between competing shots of Makers 46 and Wild Turkey….god bless this all so human attempt at intervention in a random universe….

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Jim Beam Jacked in Joondalup: Jeepers

Posted on March 26, 2011 by chinaski

A thief stole four bottles of Jim Beam from a Joondalup liquor outlet and attempted a getaway on foot. He was pursued by the store manager and confronted in a nearby parking lot. The manager was aided by a group of youths, who attempted to assist. The man in question dropped two of the bottles and brandished a machete, threatening the group. He escaped with two bottles of Jim Beam. Police are investigating the incident.

The Bourbonhours news desk is attempting to ascertain the whereabouts of the two bottles the perpetrator dropped.

source: http://www.watoday.com.au/

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Woman Suffers Housefire, Brain Tumour, and Theft of Jack Daniels

Posted on March 26, 2011 by chinaski

A 66 year old Blackpool woman had about the worst week you can imagine. First, her house caught fire and she was forced to move out pending repairs. Then she was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. The final insult came when thugs broke into her damaged home, stealing personal items and even helping themselves to her Jack Daniels.

String ‘em up by their nuts we say.

source: http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/

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Jesus

Posted on March 22, 2011 by chinaski

We’re adding Glen Campbell’s Jesus to the Bourbon Hours Gospel Hour playlist. This is just king-hell greatness manifesting itself as just another trailer-park hallelujah. It’s merely another incredible song on what I consider to be one of the best albums of the last…i dunno…bazillion years: Meet Glenn Campbell. The thing i like most about the album is that it gets better every time i listen to it. Including tonight when Jesus spooled by, with the thunderclap that it’s going straightaway to the playlist.

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Eve Stole The Apple, Earns Bourbon Hours Fame

Posted on March 20, 2011 by chinaski

Avid bourbonhours readers, if they existed, would be applauding the fact that the once moribund Bourbonhours Gospel Hour is now receiving a little attention. Case in point: tonight we’re adding Abigail Washburn’s Eve Stole the Apple from Songs of the Travelling Daughter. It has an absolute ring of gospel conviction to it and it sounds like post-feminist jingo-banjoism to me, which is why it has earned a space on the Bourbonhours Gospel Hour playlist.

They nailed him to the cross
Another man done gone
Eve stole the apple
from the tree good lord
I know she could be me

Abigail Washburn, Eve Stole the Apple

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Jack Daniel’s Sweet as Honey

Posted on March 20, 2011 by chinaski

Jack Daniels is branching out to the sweeter side of whiskey by introducing Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, complete with a honey bee on the label. I can’t see this appealing to the typical Jack Daniel’s drinker and that’s probably entirely the point: this is the kinder, gentler Jack, complete with softer labelling and that cutesy honey-bee thing on the label.

The liqueur, bottled at 70 proof, is set to be released in April for something like 22.00 a bottle. We’ll be picking up a bottle just because, but I don’t fancy we’ll be running through it in any kind of hurry. We’re not the audience after all: we like our whiskey neat and bourbon’s strong.

source: http://www.luxist.com/

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Adding Minutes to the Bourbonhours Gospel Hour

Posted on March 19, 2011 by chinaski

Listening to Bill Frisell’s Nashville at the moment – loving it -and inspired to add May Jesus Wash the Bloodstains From Your Hands to the Bourbonhours Gospel Hour playlist. First, the list has been lacking, and it’s only laziness on our part that has contributed to that deficit. Our collection is chock-a-block with gospel-y music. This tune is in the wheelhouse and I’ve got the time (and energy) so that’s why it’s being added tonight.

This album by the way is fabulous. Do yourself a favour: pour yourself a long one and just sit back. Beautiful stuff.

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Maker’s Mark App

Posted on March 16, 2011 by chinaski

From the “what a waste of time category”, the marketing geniuses at Maker’s Mark have moved to become buzzword-compliant by hiring somebody to create an I-device game called Tap Tap Bar that you can edify yourself with while ignoring fellow human beings on public transit. The goal of the game is apparently to mix drinks before time runs out, or something.

I don’t own an I-device so I can’t comment on the addictive qualities of said game. I can comment on the addictive qualities of Maker’s Mark Whiskey, but there’s no need. Hit up the link if you are one of those kinds of people.

source: http://appmodo.com/

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