Ten For Today: World Bartender Day

The Four Shades of Rhythm, Prince Buster, Frankie Franken, Brook Benton, Lew Lewis, Peer Gynt, Thin White Rope, Elliott Smith, Nick Cave, Mark Olson

TODAY is National Bartender Day.

I still live in the neighborhood where I grew up, and there is a well-known bar here called the Eire Pub. Women weren’t really allowed to be in there when I was a kid. I say not really, because it was illegal to keep them out, but they knew they weren’t welcome, and didn’t go in. It’s where their husbands went to escape t…