Junkers, Jivers & Coke Fiends: Vintage Songs About Drugs 1926-1952 CD


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Although each generation seems to think it's invented the dubious art of illicit drug use, this alternately amusing and harrowing set of vintage drug songs put together by the seriously bent staff of Britain's Buzzola Records shows that the party has been going on for generations. Cocaine features heavily here, showing the uncanny ability of Bolivia's and Peru's little coca plants to influence American music (check out Charley Patton's gruff, charging "Spoonful Blues," contrasted by Luke Jordan's cool, collected "Cocaine Blues"). Marijuana raises some smoke here, too, led by the Harlem Hamfats' (the Hamfats were apparently geographically confused, hailing from Chicago rather than Harlem) delightfully wheezing and swaying "The Weedsmoker's Dream." Then there's Tommy Johnson, whose canned heat as featured in the classic "Canned Heat Blues" is a deadly mixture of Sterno, cooking oil, methanol, alcohol, and boot polish known to bring on temporary (if not permanent) blindness. Part celebration of drug use, part a cautionary tale, Junkers, Jivers & Coke Fiends leaves the final determination up in the air, although closing with Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy's "All the Jive Is Gone" might be wishful thinking. ~ Steve Leggett

18 vintage songs about drugs 1952 - 60.

Junkers, Jivers & Coke Fiends: Vintage Songs About Drugs 1926-1952 Music

Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Blues, Folk Music, Jazz Traditional Collections, Delta, Folk
Label	Buzzola
Orig Year	2005
All Time Product Rank	383,618
CD Universe Part number	1399782
Discs	1
Release Date	Jan 31, 2006
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo

Junkers, Jivers & Coke Fiends: Vintage Songs About Drugs 1926-1952 Songs

	Trk	Song	Time	Price
	1	Cocaine Habit Blues See All 11
	2	Spoonful Blues See All 26
	3	Jerry the Junker See All 3
	4	Weed Smoker's Dream See All 8
	5	Save The Roach For Me See All 8
	6	Canned Heat Blues * See All 46	3:36	$0.99	(From different album)
	7	Junco Partner See All 11
	8	Jive Man Blues See All 6
	9	Killin' Jive See All 10
	10	Dopey Joe See All 5
	11	Skin Man Blues See All 5
	12	Reefer Head Woman See All 6
	13	Cocaine * See All 125	3:37	$0.99	(From different album)
	14	Man From Harlem See All 11
	15	All the Jive Has Gone
	16	Cocaine * See All 125 (with Dick Justice)	3:37	$0.99	(From different album)
	17	Man From Harlem See All 11 (with Cab Calloway)
	18	All the Jive Is Gone See All 8
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