dbt tracks #20 - Women Without Whiskey
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dbt tracks #20 - Women Without Whiskey
Here's another one that's guaranteed a spot on the Mt Rushmore of Cooley Songs. Like Devil Don't Stay and Zip City, this song stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it. That riff, not to mention all those great lines. Those last two verses just might be Cooley's finest moment (hard as I've tried, I still can't get my brain all the way around it).
As far as live versions go, interesting contrast between the Jason versions with the third guitar and the Neff versions with the pedal steel. I think I prefer the former which to me gives the song a harder, more desperate feeling as opposed to the resignation and weepiness of the pedal steel versions. Patterson's backup vocals on "Take me piece by piece" and "Nights a girl who's gone too far" are one of my favorite parts of the entire rock show experience.
If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down
Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now
Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while
Till I can get this demon out
You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you
When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two
And I'll sure miss you
Take me piece by piece till there ain't nothing left worth taking away from me
The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottom of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough
If morning's a bitch with open arms and night's a girl who's gone to far
Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but
Women without whiskey, Women without whiskey
Whiskey is hard to beat
Whiskey is hard to beat
As far as live versions go, interesting contrast between the Jason versions with the third guitar and the Neff versions with the pedal steel. I think I prefer the former which to me gives the song a harder, more desperate feeling as opposed to the resignation and weepiness of the pedal steel versions. Patterson's backup vocals on "Take me piece by piece" and "Nights a girl who's gone too far" are one of my favorite parts of the entire rock show experience.
If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down
Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now
Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while
Till I can get this demon out
You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you
When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two
And I'll sure miss you
Take me piece by piece till there ain't nothing left worth taking away from me
The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottom of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough
If morning's a bitch with open arms and night's a girl who's gone to far
Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but
Women without whiskey, Women without whiskey
Whiskey is hard to beat
Whiskey is hard to beat
Last edited by Clams on Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:23 am, edited 2 times in total.
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This is one my top three favorite DBT songs. I love everything about it.
Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold...
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never going back wrote:This is one my top three favorite DBT songs. I love everything about it.
Ditto!!!! 100X
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One of my favorites!!!~
I've heard tales of what goes down there ...
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Mt. Rushmore isn't big enough for all the great Cooley songs.
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The end of this song is some of the truest shit ever put on paper. At least for certain times in life.
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This could be my all time fav. Any person I have ever talked to about the band and they never heard them, I played them this song.
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The Edge wrote:This could be my all time fav. Any person I have ever talked to about the band and they never heard them, I played them this song.
This is one of their best to intro someone into them, job well done...
so what is it like living with your mommy again BWAHAHAHAHAH
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top 3 live DBT songs....
love love love this song....love love loooooooove it.
i quote it in my head all the time
love love love this song....love love loooooooove it.
i quote it in my head all the time
In my blood, there's gasoline..
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Just an amazing songs. From a songwriting standpoint alone it's terrific, the lyrics paint a great picture and the chord structure is original and takes some nice chances later in the song. Plus it just fucking kicks all kinds of ass.
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Not to mention amazing slide guitar
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The first time I heard this song I wasn't particularly struck by it, but that's long since changed. Those first two verses...God damn.
she was all provocative and everything
until she saw what I was capable of
until she saw what I was capable of
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My wife's single all-time favorite DBT tune.
And for good reason. Great stuff.
And for good reason. Great stuff.
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"You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you"
Maybe my favorite Cooley lyric
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you"
Maybe my favorite Cooley lyric
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Jason Isbell via twitter:
"Whiskey's hard to beat." Why did I only just now realize the double meaning in that line? I can be an idiot sometimes
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
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One that gives me goosebumps. It's taken me years to get the lyrics right but that never stopped me from shout singing it in my car every time.
Not forever, just for now.
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[quote="hanklow"]"You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you"
my girlfriend bought me a flask for xmas with the line "it don't make you do a thing it just lets you" engraved on it! just such a great line & it's one of my favorite songs, period.
It don't make you do a thing it just lets you"
my girlfriend bought me a flask for xmas with the line "it don't make you do a thing it just lets you" engraved on it! just such a great line & it's one of my favorite songs, period.
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"Whiskey's hard to beat." Why did I only just now realize the double meaning in that line? I can be an idiot sometimes. 9:33 AM Feb 3rd via web - Jason Isbell
http://twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/33216550282465281
I thought this twitter post from Isbell was pretty funny.
http://twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/33216550282465281
I thought this twitter post from Isbell was pretty funny.
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burtreyn0lds wrote:"Whiskey's hard to beat." Why did I only just now realize the double meaning in that line? I can be an idiot sometimes. 9:33 AM Feb 3rd via web - Jason Isbell
http://twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/33216550282465281
I thought this twitter post from Isbell was pretty funny.
look 3 posts up
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
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Smitty wrote:burtreyn0lds wrote:"Whiskey's hard to beat." Why did I only just now realize the double meaning in that line? I can be an idiot sometimes. 9:33 AM Feb 3rd via web - Jason Isbell
http://twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/33216550282465281
I thought this twitter post from Isbell was pretty funny.
look 3 posts up
Oh man, am I a doofus.
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I don't know how I'd pick a favorite Cooley song, but this is surely one of them.
Love the new year's resolution at the start of the song and grimace knowing we'll be singing the same goddamn thing all over again next year.
Love the new year's resolution at the start of the song and grimace knowing we'll be singing the same goddamn thing all over again next year.
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Clams wrote:Here's another one that's guaranteed a spot on the Mt Rushmore of Cooley Songs.
WWW is on the Mt Rushmore of Songs.
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Top 3 DBT song for me.
OK, so why does Cooley absolutely blast though "if I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down" every. single. time. that (at least) I've heard it live?
Not that I mind at all, but I've always been curious. It's almost as if he were to record the same song today, he'd record that first line in the quick-draw fashion instead of what's on SRO.
Anyone else wonder about this?
OK, so why does Cooley absolutely blast though "if I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down" every. single. time. that (at least) I've heard it live?
Not that I mind at all, but I've always been curious. It's almost as if he were to record the same song today, he'd record that first line in the quick-draw fashion instead of what's on SRO.
Anyone else wonder about this?
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ramonz wrote:Top 3 DBT song for me.
OK, so why does Cooley absolutely blast though "if I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down" every. single. time. that (at least) I've heard it live?
Not that I mind at all, but I've always been curious. It's almost as if he were to record the same song today, he'd record that first line in the quick-draw fashion instead of what's on SRO.
Anyone else wonder about this?
sometimes he rocks some jazzy willie nelson phrasing
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
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It is not possible for me to ever get tired of this song. If I wrote WWW I'd retire after this one song.
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I don't know why this got dug up but this is definitely one of my favorite songs.
Personally, i think the Dirty South Live At The 40 Watt version is the absolute best version of this song. Just absolutely great. The best version of a great song. But I love that DVD and the versions of Never Gonna Change and The Buford Stick may be the best ever too.
Personally, i think the Dirty South Live At The 40 Watt version is the absolute best version of this song. Just absolutely great. The best version of a great song. But I love that DVD and the versions of Never Gonna Change and The Buford Stick may be the best ever too.
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You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
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cortez the killer wrote:Cole Younger wrote:I don't know why this got dug up.
No shovel or manual labor required.
That was a great addition to this thread.
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This is a sure sign that you've picked a good one.rawkshow wrote:my girlfriend bought me a flask for xmas with the line "it don't make you do a thing it just lets you" engraved on it! just such a great line & it's one of my favorite songs, period.
Since this is an older post, hopefully you haven't broken up because that would make me at least the third idiot / doofus in this thread.
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life