What Good Can Drinkin' Do
"What Good Can Drinkin' Do" is a blues song by Janis Joplin, the first song she ever recorded.[1]
The song has six verses, following the 12-bar blues pattern. Lyrics in the first and last verse are almost identical: "What good can drinkin' do ?" is sung twice, then answered with "Lord, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue."
Recordings of this song can be heard on her 1975 album, Janis,[2] or on the later box set Janis.[2] Record Collector cites her intro to the song: Up steps a feisty young woman, one month short of her twentieth birthday. "Uh, this is a song called 'What Good Can Drinkin' Do', that I wrote one night after drinkin' myself into a stupor." ...[1]
In 2009, Austin musician Carolyn Wonderland began including the song in some of her live performances, after appearing at The American Music Masters tribute to Janis Joplin, "Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin."[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Paytress, Mark (March 1994), "Janis Joplin. Mark Paytress assesses Columbia's three-CD 'Janis' retrospective", Record Collector, 175: 140–141
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Janis - Janis Joplin | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
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