I’ve always had a fascination with words. Even as a child I would pour through dictionaries, encyclopedias and any reference book I could get my hands on. In 1991-92, I wrote a guidebook to bars in the county where I was living at that time and in that book I also included several...
Alexander Stewart "drunk thought": I bite my tongue even though it's hurtin' I keep your secrets 'til my chest is burnin' You never sa...
When we drink, our mouth is the first organ to absorb alcohol. A very small amount of alcohol is absorbed into the blood via the mouth and tongue. From the mouth, alcohol moves to the stomach, where around 20% is absorbed. The remaining alcohol is absorbed in the small intestine. digest...
We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquility of Mind" I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your ...
(Never mind that this is a drop in the nearly $200,000 bucket that HBW raised over the years.) I spied and traded local industry gossip with brewers getting the inside track on each year’s 717 Collab like I was trying to beat and corner the market; sometimes to less than happy ...
decorous hedonism. Eighties customers kept their hands at their sides, relinquishing control to a teenager who’d never been in control of anything in her life. To my mind, in celebrating my sexuality they celebrated me. It was an intoxicating environment that, right or wrong, largely defined...
She’s a proud and loving woman, but she’ll only speak her mind, When you take her out on Friday, and she drinks herself half blind. A drunk woman’s words Are a sober woman’s thoughts Like a bullet in your chest When she takes another shot, ...
Tritt reveals the secret anyone drinking to get problems off their mind is going to have to face, at one point or another, on his 1991 album It’s All About to Change. The hard truth is, whenever you do sober up, those same problems are going to be there, and, even worse, at som...
The songs on this tightly-produced country album propelled him to back-to-back CMA Entertainer of the Year awards and a mind-blowing 10 ACM Nominations in 2003. “Drive,”“That’d Be Alright” and “Work in Progress” are appropriately remembered after “Where Were You (When the World ...
Bryan has never been an artist who selects songs with a consistent album thread in mind. Instead he goes after separate ideas and trusts that his fans will sort them out later. It’s hard to reconcile a deep cut like “You Don’t Know Jack” (which humanizes alcoholism) on this party...