Country music's roots come from "Americanized interpretations of English, Scottish and Scots-Irish traditional music, shaped by containing vestiges of (19th century) popular song, especially (minstrel songs)".
Irish traditional music in the United States has a long and varied history, both in recording culture and by live performances. Emigrants from Ireland have brought their instruments and repertoire to the United States since the earliest days of European colonization of the New World.
source: Celtic music in the United States: Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_music_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Country%20music's%20roots%20come%20from,especially%20(minstrel%20songs)%22
Like the spelling, the true place of whisky's origin remains a point of deliberation between our friends in
Ireland and Scotland, both claiming to have invented the spirit. North of the border, records of the Scottish Exchequer first evidenced a history of whisky in Scotland in production in the late 1400s.
In Ireland, it is said St Patrick first taught the Irish to make whisky 1,500 years earlier, although there is no finite proof from that era. One thing we do know with certainty, however, is that, with a licence to distill Irish whiskey from 1608, the Old Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland remains the oldest whiskey distillery in the world.
source: History of Whisky - Whisky Origin | From the Athenaeum
UK Alcohol & Drug & Tobacco Situation
- England is "top of the charts" globally for child alcohol abuse, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) study of 44 countries.
- More than half of English children have drunk alcohol by the age of 13, the research found.25 Apr 2024
- source: How bad is Britain's booze problem? https://theweek.com/health/is-the-uk-facing-an-alcohol-emergency
- The study found that smoking contributed to 106,981 deaths in the UK in 2013, making it the top risk factor for both men and women, closely followed by high blood pressure and obesity.11 Sept 2015
- source: Northumbria University: Smoking and drinking are in top 10 causes of death in UK : https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-...0and%20obesity.
Fun song song - but a recipe for lifestyle disaster