What Good Can Drinkin' Do (song)

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"What Good Can Drinkin' Do" is a blues song by Janis Joplin, the first song Janis Joplin ever recorded.[1]


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." ...[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Paytress, Mark (March 1994), “Janis Joplin. Mark Paytress assesses Columbia's three-CD 'Janis' retrospective”, Record Collector #175: 140–141 


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