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I Never Drink Alone (Memo)

from Memos and Demos by various artists including Doug Hubley

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When we perform, I like to joke that this is the most depressing song I've ever written. I say it to be funny but also to show some self-awareness, because this really is a downer.

Well, that's life: This, like "Watching You Go," is an attempt to anticipate or envision or reconcile myself to — or try to inoculate myself against — the barren landscape of old age. I wrote it in 2012, during which year my sisters and my wife, Gretchen Schaefer, and I were starting preparations for moving Ben and Hattie Hubley, who were in their early 90s, into a memory-care facility.

I made this hotel room recording so I could remember the melody. (One wonders if there was any sort of decline in sales of music notation paper that was correlated with the advent of portable audio recorders.) Sheraton Hotel, Portsmouth, N.H., Feb. 23, 2012.

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from Memos and Demos, released November 11, 2018

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Doug Hubley Portland, Maine

Doug Hubley is a musician and writer in Maine.

He has covered arts and lifestyle for publications in Maine and Massachusetts.

Doug began learning guitar in 1966, and hopes to finish the job one day. He has played with such bands as the Fashion Jungle, the Cowlix, the Boarders and Howling Turbines.

Today he is one-half of Day for Night, an acoustic country band also starring Gretchen Schaefer. ... more

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