Beloved Dupont neighborhood watering hole Fox & Hounds returned to its roots this month, permanently bringing back its old, standard jukebox almost three years after the machine was replaced with a newfangled digital version.

The old machine, with its painstakingly curated selection of compact discs, reappeared in the dark interior room of the bar about two weeks ago, much to the delight of regular patrons, and, perhaps especially, the bar’s employees. It seems the advent of the digital Touchtunes jukebox, which connected to the Internet, was driving away the Fox & Hounds faithful by providing a little too much of a good thing: endless musical choices.

“People could come in and play country music all night,” explained longtime Fox & Hounds server Lauren Scott. “That’s just not what my regulars want.”

Fox & Hounds owner George Mallios, who has been running the bar, along with companion restaurant Trio, since taking over the business from his father in the late 1960s, only got rid of the newly reinstated jukebox in 2006 after getting a lecture from his salesman at D.C. Vending.