Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have a song called Rye Whiskey, which is the first few results when you search for the song on Google. But it’s also known as a Woodie Guthrie song, and NPR fave John McCutcheon does a version, and the song itself goes well back into the mists of time known only to Alan Lomax and the rest of the music historians.
I haven’t heard the Nick Cave version but the iTunes store has the Guthrie version, as well as several instrumentals that don’t seem related. You don’t hear that kind of folk song much, it’s either earnest politics or silly children’s music and the occasional hippie-church-outdoors hymn. This is the sort of bitter alcoholic wail you expect today to hear from… well, Nick Cave or Johnny Cash.
Anyway, I sure wish I had some rye whiskey right now.
Secretly Ironic 