Archives for June 5, 2019

Amos Milburn sings and plays “Bad, Bad Whiskey” in Rhythm and Blues Revue, directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed and released in 1955:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness