Marijuana Blues Songs
Leonard Watkins
What about..well I forgot...what were we talking about..? :-)
Champagne and Reefer (Muddy)...Did Champion Jack ever do any herb tunes or did
he stick to harder stuff
Leonard 'not as stoned as I think you am"
REMEMBER: Only users lose drugs
Tom Morgan
I had a guy stop by the theme area of my web site looking for songs about pot
for a compilation CD. Whenever I do a show with that for the theme I usually
use one of those compilations that were on the Stash label so I don't have many
in my database. I wonder what favorite blues or blues related "pot" songs some
of you other DJs have out there?
To start it off, here's a couple that aren't found on the Stash collection
Five Keys Ling Ting Tong 54
Ink Spots That Cat is High 38 Conifer
Tom
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VT
>Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:39:09 CDT
>From: Leonard Watkins <IST...@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU>
>
>What about..well I forgot...what were we talking about..? :-)
>
did
>he stick to harder stuff
>
>Leonard 'not as stoned as I think you am"
>
>REMEMBER: Only users lose drugs
>
Fery Vunny - was that really you bogart-ing that joint? Sure didn't look
like you.....
Try these:
LOUISIANA RED / RISING SUN COLLECTION
$9.91 -- JUX6 -- JUST A MEMORY -- 11/94
smoke a little marijuana
ARNOLD*BILLY BOY / BACK WHERE I BELONG
$11.67 -- ALL4815 -- ALLIGATOR -- 10/93
whiskey, beer & reefer
CALLOWAY*CAB / BEST OF THE BIG BANDS
$8.60 -- SON45336 -- SONY -- 1/90
reefer man
NIXON*MOJO / GADZOOKS! HOME MADE BOOTLEG
$13.24 -- UNQ17751 -- UNITY -- 1/97
i like marijuana
REVEREND HORTON HEAT / SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM
$10.48 -- SUB96 -- SUB POP -- 11/91
marijuana
Of course what leapt straight to mind (well, it might have been my mind :-)
was this all time classic:
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH / LIFE & TIMES OF
$13.11 -- VAN27 -- VANGUARD -- 8/91
marijuana
There are whole albums devoted to the subject:
$13.32 VA-HEMPILATION-FREEDOM IS NORM -- HEMPILATION-FREEDOM IS NORML --=
8.3/4
CAU942047 =A0 =A0 9/95 =A0 =A0 CAPRICORN =A0 =A0 Songs
Black Crowes/Marley/Sublime Blues Traveler/Cypress Hill=20
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$13.31 VA-MARIJUANA'S GREATEST HITS R -- MARIJUANA'S GREATEST HITS REVI --=
5/1
YOU5042 =A0 =A0 4/93 =A0 =A0 YOUNG GOD =A0 =A0 Songs
Storm Orphans/Nixon/Bushmen Dickens/Mccaughey/Stumpy Joe=20
or just being plain wasted:
$18.17 VA-WASTED -- WASTED: BEST OF VOLUME PT. 1 -- 9/1
VOL9231 =A0 =A0 5/95 =A0 =A0 VOLUME =A0 =A0 Songs
Orb/Grid/System 7/Moby Best Of Volume
--
Vincent
v...@pipeline.com
keith abel
Diggin the grooves and preachin the BLUES!
Keith E. Abel
Publicist
Jewel-Paula-Ronn Records
P.O. Box 1125
Shreveport, LA 71163
Phone: 1(800)446-2865
Fax: (318)227-0304
Bronxharp
Here are some reefer related toonz
Fats Waller song: When Your a Viper
and of course, the classic
CHAMPAGNE & REEFER by Muddy Waters (which my band covers rather nicely)
Also, any number of songs by Elvin Bishop have references to the "good ol'
weed"... midnight Creeper comes to mind.
=====*~~~~~
m t h
Tokin Pot Luck Saigon Blues by Tom Paxton
Rainy Day Women by Dylan
Steve Levine
>Rainy Day Women by Dylan
Which was covered by Little Mike & The Tornadoes.
-Steve
Delta Doc Roger
1. Kickin' the Gong Around Cab Calloway
2. Dope Head Blues Victoria Spivey
3. Pipe Dream Blues (may be opium related) Hazel Meyers
4. Smokin' Reefers1 Larry Adler
5. You'se a Viper Onyx Club Boys
6. Reefer Man Baron Lee & Blue Rythym Band
7. Knockin' Myself Out Lil Green
NOTE: # 7 IS HOT!!!!!
8. Reefer Hound Blues Curtis Jones
9. The Reefer Song Fats Waller
10. I'm Feelin' High and Happy Gene Krupa & Orchestra
11. When I get Low I get High Ella Fitzgerald
12. Ol' Mand River (smoke a little tea) Cootie Williams and his Rug
Cutters
13. Blue Reefer Blues Richard M. Jones & Jazz Wizards
14. Reefer Head Woman Jazz Gilliam & his Jazz Boys
15. Willie the Weeper Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
16. A Viper's Moan Willie Byrant
David Silberberg
Delta Doc Roger
Hi my Friend,
TIP: get the CD entitled "Viper Mad Blues", -25 songs of Dope and
Depravity, Jass Records, J-CD-630.
ddr
Arthur Schuna
At 12:29 PM 10/2/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I had a guy stop by the theme area of my web site looking for songs about pot
>for a compilation CD.
My favorite is "Junker Blues" on Blues at Montreux by Champion Jack Dupree
and King Curtis.
"They call me a reefer smoker, and every word they say is true" - Champion
Jack
Dupree.
Art Schuna
Shaun Cronin
Warning: This post not for the irony impaired
I am offended that there is a thread devoted to marijuana, a evil drug that
will lead you to ruin and other places of ill repute (where I will probably
be). It will destroy your brain and cause you to do naughty things.
Btw, any good blues songs about Guiness?;-)
Shaun
Yeah, it ain't no heaven now and it ain't no burning hell
Oh, where I'm going when I die can't nobody tell
Son House
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth that there is
no reason to decieve ourselves with petty stories for which there's little
evidence.
Carl Sagan
Jay Watterworth
I showed that flick to my class, Drugs in US Society last year. One of
the crazed hop heads was a pianist at the "pad" where the kids go to get
high. When he smokes, he cooks with a manic gaze that would do anyone
proud. Not sure if he released anything, though.
Jay Watterworth
SMIRKYFACE
Hey you guys. After the Rod Piazza show at WD's on wednesday, The Tiki
Bar's jam will be going on. Hope some of you can make it to the show and
to the jam.
--=20
Brian Mclean=20
http://www.netaxs.com/~blmclean
=93life's too short to live the blues=94
David J. Jones
: Tom Morgan wrote:
>I had a guy stop by the theme area of my web site looking for songs about pot
>for a compilation CD. Whenever I do a show with that for the theme I usually
>use one of those compilations that were on the Stash label so I don't have
many
>in my database. I wonder what favorite blues or blues related "pot" songs
some
>of you other DJs have out there?
>
>To start it off, here's a couple that aren't found on the Stash collection
>
>Five Keys Ling Ting Tong 54
>Ink Spots That Cat is High 38 Conifer
>
Boy this is going back a little for my poor memmory, but back around
1969 or 1970, I lived in northern Illinois near DeKalb. Late at night on
the weekends we use to listen to a program on the AM station KAAY out of
Little Rock, AR. The program was called "Beaker Street." It had a very
spacey Twilight Zone theme music when it came on and it frequently signed
off by playing the talking blues ballad: "The Stinking of the U.S.S.
Titantic." (I'm going to need some help with who sang/wrote and the name
of the album) This was an album (LP) side long ballad about a guy who was
working in a "rope" factory in Mexico. One day the factory burned, and the
above mentioned gent runs back into the factory to get his lunch. When he
picks up his lunch, he also inhales the smoke and of course gets high. He
then sits down (in the fire) and finishes his lunch. (Umm, I remember
munchies that bad myself.) After leaveing his job at the rope factory with
a coil of rope over his shoulder, he signs on board the crew of the
fictious ship "The U.S.S. Titantic" as the First Mate. Meanwhile the famed
black boxer, Jack Johnson, is denied passage because of his race. To make
the twenty-six minute ballad short, the First Mate turns the Captain on to
smoking his rope and the two of them miss an radio warning about an
ice-berg. The ship sinks with all hands, leaving Jack Johnson on the shore
safe and sound.
The whole ballad becomes an allegory for the condition of the US at
that time... with the Captain representing the establishment (i.e. the
businesses and government of the US), the First Mate repesents the white
radicals of that era, and Jack Johnson represents black Americans. Guess
who survived.
I think the title of the album was also called "The Sinking of the U.
S. S. Titantic" but I may be wrong about that. I don't have a clue as to
who sang it and I have never seen it released on CD.
Beaker Street...Little Rock, AR....hmm...are you sure Bill didn't
inhale?;-)>
Later
Dave
Domenic Forcella
> Meanwhile the famed black boxer, Jack Johnson, is denied passage because
of his race.
I believe the statement is wrong color and Jack Johnson says me or the
ticket and the reply is you.
Something about the Jewish people trading wives and the band playing Fare
thee well or nearer my God to thee.
Sounds like Jamie Brocket if my recollection is correct. Out of Grafton,
Mass High School in 64(?). Album somewhere in the late 60s early 70s.
from memory it has him leaning against an old New england shed.
I'll look for the album and add some details tomorrow.
"Blues to Fatten Your Spirit"
Domenic "the Road Hog" Forcella
Traveling with the Blues, WFCS 107.7
David J. Jones
Art Schuna wrote:
>
>David is not just smoking rope here!!
Maybe I did a little too much in the past that's why I couldn't remember
that "Jaimie Brockett recorded this classic" ;-)>
and Domenic Forcella wrote:
>"Remember the Wind & the Rain" was the name of the album by Jamie Brockett.
Thanks to both Art and Dom. Does anybody know if this has been re-released
on CD or if Jamie Brockett is still recording?
Dave
David J. Jones
>: Tom Morgan wrote:
>snip<
>. I wonder what favorite blues or blues related "pot" songs
>some
>>of you other DJs have out there?
>>
>> Boy this is going back a little for my poor memmory, but back around
>1969 or 1970, I lived in northern Illinois near DeKalb. Late at night on
>the weekends we use to listen to a program on the AM station KAAY out of
>Little Rock, AR. The program was called "Beaker Street." It had a very
>spacey Twilight Zone theme music when it came on and it frequently signed
>off by playing the talking blues ballad: "The Stinking of the U.S.S.
name
>of the album) This was an album (LP) side long ballad about a guy who was
>working in a "rope" factory in Mexico. One day the factory burned, and the
>above mentioned gent runs back into the factory to get his lunch. When he
>picks up his lunch, he also inhales the smoke and of course gets high. He
>then sits down (in the fire) and finishes his lunch. (Umm, I remember
>munchies that bad myself.) After leaveing his job at the rope factory with
>a coil of rope over his shoulder, he signs on board the crew of the
famed
>black boxer, Jack Johnson, is denied passage because of his race. To make
>the twenty-six minute ballad short, the First Mate turns the Captain on to
>smoking his rope and the two of them miss an radio warning about an
>ice-berg. The ship sinks with all hands, leaving Jack Johnson on the shore
>safe and sound.
>
> The whole ballad becomes an allegory for the condition of the US at
>that time... with the Captain representing the establishment (i.e. the
>businesses and government of the US), the First Mate repesents the white
>radicals of that era, and Jack Johnson represents black Americans. Guess
>who survived.
>
> I think the title of the album was also called "The Sinking of the U.
as to
>who sang it and I have never seen it released on CD.
>
> Beaker Street...Little Rock, AR....hmm...are you sure Bill didn't
>inhale?;-)>
>
> tHAT TUNE IS TITLED "TITANIC' AND IS BY LEADBELLY
To which I will reply:
Thank you for correcting my spelling but this 'song' was definitely
called "The Sinking of..." and it was not Leadbelly's version although it
may have been derivative of a Leadbelly song. It was a full album side
long (i.e. 23-26 mins) and I don't know of any Leadbelly song that long.
It was also definitely an allegory about the politics of the late '60's.
dave
Art Schuna
At 01:25 PM 10/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> I think the title of the album was also called "The Sinking of the U.
>>S. S. Titantic(sic)" but I may be wrong about that. I don't have a clue
>as to>>who sang it and I have never seen it released on CD.
>>To which DAVI...@aol.com replied:
>> tHAT TUNE IS TITLED "TITANIC' AND IS BY LEADBELLY
>
>To which I will reply:
> Thank you for correcting my spelling but this 'song' was definitely
>called "The Sinking of..." and it was not Leadbelly's version
David is not just smoking rope here!! The song/album he describes
is definitely not Leadbelly. Jaimie Brockett recorded this classic
60s-early 70s tune. It's sort of in the style of some of Bob Dylan's
early talking blues numbers. It was released on the Capitol label.
Somewhere in the collection I have a copy of this...guess I'll just
have to pull it out and give it another spin.
Art Schuna