01. Dick Justice – Cocaine 02. Memphis Jug Band – Cocaine Habit Blues 03. Abner Jay – Cocaine Blues 04. Grant Brothers – Tell It To Me 05. Kenny Brown – Cocaine Bill 06. Reverend Gary Davis – Cocaine Blues 07. Scott H. Biram – Cocaine Blues 08. Hank Williams iii – Cocaine Blues 09. Panama Limited Jug Band – Take A Whiff On Me 10. Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb & his Orchestra – Wacky Dust 11. Split Lip Rayfield – A Little More Cocaine Please 12. Johnny Paycheck – (Stay Away From) The Cocaine Train13. Reverend Horton Heat – Bales of Cocaine 14. Luke Jordan – Cocaine Blues 15. Ramblin’ Jack Elliot – Cocaine Blues 16. Doc & Merle Watson – Let The Cocaine Be 17. Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions – Cocaine Habit Blues 18. Holy Modal Rounders – Cocaine Blues 19. Freddy Countryman – Cocaine Blues 20. The Fall – Stay Away (Old White Train) 21. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – Cocaine Decisions 22. Roy Hogsed – Cocaine Blues 23. Clarence Ashley – Little Sadie
Notes on this compliation:
There are several different songs here bearing the moniker “Cocaine Blues”, and then there are many re-workings and i haven’t always included the original song, so if the musicology interests you’ll have to research – here’s just some music.
(Although this does finish with the traditional tune “Little Sadie”, even though that song contains no references to cocaine, simply because it became the basis for the “Cocaine Blues” that was finally made famous by Johnny Cash.)
oh, if you didn’t know already cocaine was originally marketed as a medicine for children.
