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Certain Songs #1591: The Pogues – “Streams of Whiskey”

July 23, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Red Roses For Me
Year: 1984

It’s probably not surprising that the first time anybody publicly took notice of Shane MacGowan, it was because he was bleeding at a Clash gig.

And, of course, the guess here is that he’d been drinking, as Shane MacGowan is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s poet laureates of alcohol — the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems — leading his crack band through five stellar albums that started out mixing traditional Irish music with punk rock, but ended up so much more than that.

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