What Good Can Drinkin' Do (song)
- What Good Can Drinkin' Do (song)
"What Good Can Drinkin' Do" is a blues song by Janis Joplin, the first song Janis Joplin ever recorded.[Citation]
last = Paytress
first = Mark
title = Janis Joplin. Mark Paytress assesses Columbia's three-CD 'Janis' retrospective
journal = Record Collector
volume = #175
pages = 140–141
date = March 1994
year = 1994 ] The song has six verses, following the 12-bar blues pattern. Lyrics in the first and last verse is 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 Early Performances, or on the 3-cd box-set Janis. "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." ..."
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