{"id":346,"date":"2016-02-23T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2024-11-23T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:04:31","slug":"bottle-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/bottle-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle of Wine (nostalgie de la boue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bottle of Wine\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_bp04woeVQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tom Paxton again, as anyone who was around for the folk revival very well knows.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-426 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dave-tom.gif?resize=231%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"dave-&amp;-tom\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/>Among the many things Dave Van Ronk taught me was the phrase &#8220;nostalgie de la boue,&#8221; which <em>The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable<\/em> defines roughly as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>nostalgie de la boue:<\/strong> a desire for degradation and depravity. The French phrase, meaning literally &#8220;nostalgia\/longing for the mud,&#8221; was coined by the French poet and dramatist \u00c9mile Augier (1820\u201389), in <em>Le Mariage d&#8217;Olympe<\/em>. In response to the comment that a duck placed on a lake with swans will miss his pond and eventually return to it, the character Montrichard replies, <em>&#8220;La nostalgie de la boue!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folksingers have a strong tendency towards nostalgie de la boue, as do more than a few musicians of other sorts, from jazz saxophonists to opera singers, not to mention painters and novelists.\u00a0 Van Ronk had his moments of it, God knows, but by the time I met him he was trying to stifle that particular propensity, replacing it with astonishing dinners, fine cigars, and the motto: &#8220;Nothing is too good for the working class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, &#8220;Bottle of Wine&#8221; is a fine example of nostalgie de la boue set to a catchy tune: the protagonist is panhandling, crashing in bug-infested flophouses, and hopping freight trains, due to his addiction to the bottle, and we all want to sing along. I learned this around age ten or eleven, but didn&#8217;t start singing it with any frequency until <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-348\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright-300x300.jpg?resize=261%2C261\" alt=\"Graeme Allwright\" width=\"261\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright.jpg?resize=768%2C772&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright.jpg?w=1018&amp;ssl=1 1018w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Graeme-Allwright.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>I went to France, where people kept requesting it. It had been a huge hit, as &#8220;Jolie Boutteille, <span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Graeme Allwright - Sacr\u00e9e Bouteille\">Sacr\u00e9e Bouteille<\/span>,&#8221; for Graeme Allwright &#8212; and if you don&#8217;t know who Graeme Allwright is, you weren&#8217;t in France with an acoustic guitar in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a pretty fair hit in the United States, for the Fireballs, a surf guitar band from Raton, New Mexico, who doubled as the Crickets on Buddy Holly&#8217;s posthumous releases. 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