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Keeping Tom Waller away from bars is a difficult feat. His capacity for both food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...
...Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise...
...Supply. Gin stocks are always low because little aging is required. Rum and Scotch are imported. Consequently the U.S. liquor industry's 100% conversion to war last fall threw hard-liquor bibbers back on domestic whiskey. Since many citizens regard liquor as an unnecessary evil, the Federal Government has never seriously considered rationing it. Result: the distilling industry has been forced to do its own: distributors are now getting about 70% of what they took in 1942. Meanwhile liquor consumption has increased along with payrolls...
...most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date...
When victory comes, Britons will have to celebrate with weak beer, women & song. Whiskey and gin are almost unobtainable by the bottle; even in bars the supply is very...