Booze Bards

Kris Adams & Greg Bryan
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Join us on our quest to find America's drinking song! Each month we learn the history of a drinking song and then learn to sing it while ... drinking!

Episodes

  1. 01/28/2022

    Ep. 12: The Minstrel Rav’n Sings us some Drinking Songs!

    We continue our side quest of asking other folks about drinking songs—which is nice because it is less homework for your humble (and busy) booze bards! This time we were pleased to welcome the Minstrel Rav'n  —pirate / 80s glam rocker extraordinaire. We had some drinks and told some jokes and most of all got to hear a few songs from the Minstrel! It was a blast and we are sure you will have fun joining in on the conversation.

    1h 13m

  2. 09/17/2021

    Ep 11: Dug‘s Favorite Drinking Songs

    For the start of season 2 we go on a side quest to find out about other drinking songs. Our first interview is with Dug McCormack, musician, artist, cat dude, and all around fantastic human. Greg learns a bunch of new drinking songs! Greg and Kris collectively wonder if they can really learn the lyrics to drinking songs before a gig we have coming up. Cheers!

    1h 9m

  3. 07/07/2021

    Ep. 10: How Can I Be So Thirsty Today?

    So the vagaries of jobs, semi-home schooling, and the languor of covid year delayed this episode by almost six months. Sorry! But here we are with our 10th episode that we actually recorded (mostly) in Feb. It is the most obscure song we have yet done, but a real banger about having a heck of a hangover. Check out this song by Austin punk-grass band The Meat Purveyors about the single life... And then we review the quest so far and solicit your input!

    44 min

  4. 01/26/2021

    Ep. 9: The Wellerman

    Has America chosen its own drinking song right under our noses? Kris and Greg jump on the viral chain and learn about The Wellerman and talk about how sea shanties and drinking songs have a fair bit of crossover on the musical Venn diagram.

    41 min

  5. 12/22/2020

    Ep. 8: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    The Booze Bards mine the pagan history of Christmas as a raucous party more akin to Mardi Gras to find a song where rowdy revelers demanded food and drink from fancy people of privilege. Yes, it's just We Wish You a Merry Christmas. But we do! Merry Christmas!

    54 min

  6. 10/03/2020

    Ep. 7: The Barley Mow

    In this episode we get rather tongue-tied on the classic cumulative drinking song about measures of alcohol. This is a British Isles song–possibly hundreds of years old–sung as an ode to the barley harvest, measures of alcohol, and the wonderful people who sell us booze. Greg is temporarily sober, but don't worry, Kris makes up for it.

    52 min

  7. 07/23/2020

    Ep 6: Drinking Tequila in Old Mexico

    Last episode we borrowed a song from our neighbors to the north. This episode is a song of American origin but about a boozey visit to our southern neighbors. We learn about American country singer Jim Reeves and the origin of the word bimbo. We also drink some tequila and yell "hooo wee!" but definitey NOT suey!

    55 min

  8. 07/02/2020

    Ep. 5: Barrett's Privateers

    In this episode we dive into a classic Canadian drinking song. It is not about drinking, and it is definitely not American, but it sure is fun to sing. Learn interesting facts about your hosts, such as Greg prefers the Beach Boys to the Beatles and Kris really doesn't like traditional singing advice.

    50 min

  9. 05/14/2020

    Ep. 4: Whiskey and Wine–Quarantine!

    Hey ya'll! In this episode, Kris and Greg invite their spouses along for a drinking sing along and hilarity ensues. We could not find a plague-themed drinking song, so Greg wrote one instead. As the four of us had all been cooped up in the house for weeks, we had trouble staying on point but we sure had a lot of fun. We recorded over Zoom and things did not go exactly as planned recording wise, but hey, you can still hear how much fun we had.

    26 min

  10. 03/29/2020

    Ep. 3: All For Me Grog

    The Booze Bards finally explore a song worthy of being considered a proper drinking song. We explore the naval history of the drink called grog and how it gave rise to a fun not-really-sea-shanty that proved a delight to sing whilst drunk. We drank rum. It was good.

    1h 10m

  11. 02/28/2020

    Ep. 2: 99 Bottles of Beer! Oh yeah!

    In our second episode Kris and Greg get something out of the way and explore the shameful history of the children's counting song that many Americans think of as a drinking song ... for inscrutable reasons. We also maybe overshoot our drinking a little and may have been unable to order a pizza after we were done recording this episode. Show notes and what we were drinking at www.boozebards.com

    54 min

  12. 01/31/2020

    Ep. 1: Raise a Glass to Freedom

    In the inaugural episode of Booze Bards, we roll back the clock to the 18th century and discover that the U.S. national anthem is actually a drinking song in disguise! Our beloved Star Spangled Banner started its life as the "Anacreontic Song" or "To Anacreon in Heaven." We discuss the society of drinkers and singers that wrote it as well as the Greek poet it was in homage to. We discover it is even harder to sing with the original words. We also get a little tipsy!

    57 min
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About

Join us on our quest to find America's drinking song! Each month we learn the history of a drinking song and then learn to sing it while ... drinking!

Information

  • Creator
    Kris Adams & Greg Bryan
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Booze Bards