Cocaine Habit Blues

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Tune Title

Cocaine Habit Blues

Artist

Memphis Jug Band

Year

1930

Media Source

From the Collection of John Coffey

Collections Reference

John Coffey Collection

Label

Victor

Catalog Number

V-38620

Matrix Number

59933

Track Order

1998.24

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Cocaine Habit Blues

Will "Son Brimmer" Shade (1898-1966) was the chief organizer of the other of the best Memphis jug bands (see side 1), While most versions of this song are lighthearted and fairly bowdlerized, this one is remarkably explicit,

Charlie Burse, guitar; Hambone Lewis, jug.

Memphis, TN 5/17/30 Victor V-38620

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