Three Blue Teardrops

Dave is prone to write a lot of honkytonkin' country tunes and shoe horned this one into the band. This track was later re-recorded and released by Dave's sprawling "4-H Music" (Hard Hittin' Hillbilly Honkytonk) project: The Gin Palace Jesters complete will steel guitar on the Jesters debut album "Honkytonk Fools" from 2004 on Rhythm Bomb Records. Inspiration for this song came when driving down the highway on a tour and listening to Paul Howard's Western swing tune "I'm Drinking All My Troubles Away." The question was posed by someone in the van, "I wonder what happens when he's finally drunk all his troubles away?" Dave set about to answer the question. In case anyone is counting along the protagonist drinks a total of 2 shots + 1 pint ( 8 shots in a pint) + 1 beer + 3 jiggers (same as 3 shots with different container name). So in total we've got 2+1+8+3=14 drinks over the course of approximately 8 hours (6pm-2am?) which puts our protagonist at BLOTTO level but like, not death level. Point is...there was some thought to the mathematics on this story.