3:15
single, 1949
Written by Stick McGhee and J. Mayo Williams
I was first exposed to this song, I am ashamed to admit, by the loathsome Kid Rock's execrable evisceration of it. Jerry Lee Lewis' 1973 version is best known, but this is the original. It's a cheery jump blues about the joys of drinking. "Down in New Orleans, where everything is fine / All them cats is drinkin' that wine / Drinking that mess to their delight." There's a chorus of "wine, wine wine," reminding me of the 1959 song of the same name by the Nightcaps. Oh, and this is another song that mentions Rampart Street, for anyone keeping track.
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