Boone's Farm Christmas

It's the Holiday weekend! And what could be better after a long hard day going broke, than to settle back with a fine libation?

We're going local today, with a fine little tune by Illinois' own The Driveway Drinkers.

Here's what singer and guitarist Tom Compton had to say about this little Holiday nugget:

""Christmas on Boone's Farm" started out as a rural tribute to Pat Boone, but due to excessive drinking of cheap wine it took a turn for the better."

Pat Boone and wine in a twist-cap bottle? Sign us up! More on the band here.

We're taking the weekend off, but we'll be back on Monday for a special beer-goggled celebration of Shane Macgowan Eve.

L'chaim!

Driveway Drinkers: Christmas On Boone's Farm (mp3)

The Salvation Army bell ringers are still out there. Instead of having that "one more for the road" at closing time, please consider dropping that money into one of those famous red buckets.

Bowery Santa

We're staggering towards last call here at the Barstool Mountain Holiday Bender. One more round tomorrow before we close up the bar until New Year's Eve (you didn't think we could resist a New Year's post, did you?). After that, we'll return to our normally scheduled posts on all songs Drinking, and the slow pub crawl that is our continuing coverage of The Top 100 Drinking Songs (via Big Rock Candy Mountain.).

Today we've got Paul Sanchez detailing a special inebriated Xmas experience, and The Michael Packer Blues Band taking us on a Holiday tour of the bowery.

Good times.


Paul Sanchez: Drunk This Christmas (mp3)

Michael Packer Blues Band: Christmas On The Bowery (mp3)

Ah, hell, it's the Holidays. Give a little something at your local food pantry. Seriously, sometimes a warm meal or a blanket can be the greatest gift.

Christmas (High) Ball

The incomparable Bessie Smith weighs in (sorry for the pun)today. She's heading out to a big Holiday party, and there might be a beverage or two consumed.

The song features the immortal lines: "Christmas comes but once a year/And to me it brings good cheer/And to everyone/Who likes wine and beer."

Iechyd da!


Bessie Smith: At The Christmas Ball (mp3)

Support your local speakeasy this Holiday Season.

Mum's Xmas Helper

One week to go until Shane Macgowan's birthday. More toasts then.

Red Star Belgrade offers up a cheerful little number about Mommy's little helper on Christmas. Apparently Daddy's not the only one drinking up Christmas. Apparently this song is meant to convey some kind of adolescent rage revisited as an adult. What follows, though, is an unintentionally hilarious Holiday drinking song, which, well, makes one want to have a tipple.

Red Star Belgrade: Christmas Day (mp3)

Support your local, independent emo busker. They hate Christmas. And they mean it, man.

Drinking Up Christmas

An inebriated Holiday morning to you (yep, that's a very loose Tom Waits paraphrase).

We're continuing, a bit, our theme from Friday. Santa got busted with his hand in the liquor cabinet, but he still hasn't learned his lesson. Stupid Santa.

"Santa Came Home Drunk" by Clyde Lasley and the Cadillac Baby Specials is by far our favorite Christmas drinking song. Nothing else comes close. It's a shuffling blues tune about Santa on a bender. One hell of a bender, if you consider the laundry list of drinks Santa consumes in this classic tale. Essential.

Filthy punks, The Dwarves, detail another Santa bender, including a brawl between Ol' Saint Nick and Frosty. Good times.

Sanitas bona!

Clyde Lasley and the Cadillac Baby Specials: Santa Came Home Drunk (mp3)

The Dwarves: Drinking Up Christmas (mp3)

Dive bars are warm and welcoming places during the Holiday season. Hmmm mmm.

Recycling for the Holidays

Hey folks. Past and future contributor to Barstool Mountain Sean has weighed in with a tune for the Holidays. Take it away Sean:


Here's a bonus post -- and while it's a little bit of cheating, that's been known to occur in just a few watering holes over the years.

Carnival of Shame released its "Happy Alcoholidays EP" in late 1993 and most definitely put the "filth" in Philadelphia with its assault on holiday "standards." I wrote about this EP last year during the holiday season -- continue back to my original post to learn a little more (and to hear two more tunes) or just feast yourselves on the perennial favorite...

Carnival of Shame -- The Grinch (MP3)

Don't be afraid to let your hearts (rather than your waistlines) grow a little this holiday season.

Santa Grog

See that picture up above? Yep, Santa's leaving his local tavern, and he looks a little worse for the wear. Surely he'll take public transportation home. Or perhaps a cab. Yeah, Santa will definitely call a cab to get home. Right? Ummm...maybe not. Looks like Santa's opting for naughty over nice. Surely nothing good can come from this (and don' call me...oh, never mind). The Tiger City Jukes and Sherwin Linton survey the consequences.


Tiger City Jukes: Watch Out Santa's Been Drinking (mp3)

Sherwin Linton: Santa Got A DWI (mp3)

Please support your local train conductors and bus drivers this festive Holiday season.