Sure, I traded a chance to see the Chicago River dyed green for a late-season Boston Nor’easter, but when your loved ones are back on the coast and your brutha’s offering to cook up a big boiled dinner, well, such trade-offs seem worth it.

But whether you’re in Chicago or Boston or some other outpost of Irishness (or even pseudo-Irishness), if you’re looking for a little soundtrack for your celebration of driving the snakes out, etc., allow me to reprise a little something I put together last year at this time —

wayne&wax, “doctorin’ the guinness” (9 min / 9 mb) | mpfree
[audio:http://wayneandwax.com/riddimmeth0d/wayneandwax_doctorin-the-guinness.mp3]