# "That Don't CONFRONT Me........ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012 "2011-12-21T23:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/21 "2011-12-22T05:40:25Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Not really - the original (John Lee Hooker?) blues version was much shorter. Later versions of the song, including Thorogood’s, included the additional dialogue with the “landlady” but that was not part of the original. Wellll, yes, but not exactly the whole story. “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” did not originate with John Lee Hooker; it “was written by Rudy Toombs and carried by Amos Milburn to the #2 position on _Billboard_’s R&B chart in 1953” according to the liner notes of the _John Lee Hooker Ultimate Collection 1948-1990_ (which this thread has inspired me to dig out of my stacks - thanks Quasi!). But Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” is actually a mash-up of that song prefaced by a John Lee Hooker original - “House Rent Boogie” or “John L’s House Rent Boogie.” In “House Rent Boogie” (written by Hooker in 1950), John Lee does indeed quote the landlady as saying, “That don’t confront me.” Thorogood begins his “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” with “House Rent Boogie,” which is the story of the landlady, and segues into “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” which is the tragic story of his missing girl and the damnable closing hours of the local bar. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/22 "2011-12-22T05:44:25Z")
**Just Ed** , You’re welcome, sir! I always appreciate someone taking the time to research and teach. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/23 "2011-12-22T05:58:28Z")
And I just found the [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Bourbon,_One_Scotch,_One_Beer) has all that information I so painstakingly found! :smack: But that’s OK; good excuse to listen to some John Lee Hooker. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/24 "2011-12-22T07:00:48Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > And I just found the [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Bourbon,_One_Scotch,_One_Beer) has all that information I so painstakingly found! :smack: > > But that’s OK; good excuse to listen to some John Lee Hooker. FTFY: But that’s OK; \*\*any \*\*excuse to listen to some John Lee Hooker **is good**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/25 "2011-12-22T07:01:48Z")
Uh hyaow hyaow hyaow! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/26 "2011-12-22T07:10:40Z")
Boom boom boom boom ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/27 "2011-12-22T09:16:02Z")
> [@Black\_Train\_Song](#): > > I always heard it as “befront”, which apparently means : to concern or bother. The only lyrics I’ve found on the web use “confront” and “comfort” Now that you mention it, that’s the way it sounds on the Thorogood version I have. Google finds two references to it, one each from the Urban Dictionary and Yahoo Answers (I know, I know) which say that “befront” has pretty much the same meaning as we’re attributing to “confront,” i.e., “To concern or bother. To matter to.” ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/28 "2011-12-22T11:32:39Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > Wellll, yes, but not exactly the whole story. “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” did not originate with John Lee Hooker; it “was written by Rudy Toombs and carried by Amos Milburn to the #2 position on _Billboard_’s R&B chart in 1953” according to the liner notes of the _John Lee Hooker Ultimate Collection 1948-1990_ (which this thread has inspired me to dig out of my stacks - thanks Quasi!). But Thorogood’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” is actually a mash-up of that song prefaced by a John Lee Hooker original - “House Rent Boogie” or “John L’s House Rent Boogie.” In “House Rent Boogie” (written by Hooker in 1950), John Lee does indeed quote the landlady as saying, “That don’t confront me.” > > Thorogood begins his “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” with “House Rent Boogie,” which is the story of the landlady, and segues into “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” which is the tragic story of his missing girl and the damnable closing hours of the local bar. 😉 I’m here to tell ya honey, that [you’re] bad to the bone. Buh-buh-buh-BAD… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/29 "2011-12-22T12:37:31Z")
You talk too much, you talk too much. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/30 "2011-12-22T12:59:43Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Everybody funny. Now you funny too. I love this line. There’s a whole lot of livin’ and reality stored up in this line. ETA: \*\* Just Ed\*\*, nice write-up; thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/31 "2011-12-22T13:12:31Z")
Is it too late for me to ask for an Amos Milburn compilation for Christmas? And which one should I get? All I have is Chicken Shack Boogie and Bad Bad Whiskey. This thread has shown me my deficiencies. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/32 "2011-12-22T14:48:03Z")
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