Various Artists - Cocaine Blues: Vintage Songs About Cocaine & Heroin (2006)

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Cocaine Blues: Vintage Songs About Cocaine & Heroin
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Grammercy Records
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 71 min
Total Size: 291 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
This album contains 24 vintage blues recordings about cocaine and heroin in a beautifully digitally remastered state. Featuring such acclaimed performers as Louis Armstrong, Leadbelly, Cab Calloway & His Cotton Club Orchestra, Champion Jack Dupree, Ella Fitzgerald, The Memphis Jug Band, Slim & Slam, Victoria Spivey, and many other legendary acts, this compilation is sure to be greatly enjoyed by any fan of Pre-War Jazz or Blues.Title: Cocaine Blues: Vintage Songs About Cocaine & Heroin
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Grammercy Records
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 71 min
Total Size: 291 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1.01 - Cab Calloway And His Cotton Club Orchestra - Kickin' the Gong Around (feat. Edwin Swayzee, Lammar Wright, Doc Cheatham, De Priest Wheeler, Harry White, Arville Harris, Andrew Brown, Eddie Barefield, Walter Thomas, Bennie Payne, Morris White, Al Morgan, Leroy Maxey) (3:26)
1.02 - Dick Justice - Cocaine (3:03)
1.03 - Champion Jack Dupree - Junker Blues (feat. Wilson Swain, Ransom Knowling) (2:43)
1.04 - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald - Wacky Dust (feat. Mario Bauza, Bobby Stark, Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, George Matthews, Nat Story, Garvin Bushell, Louis Jordan, Ted Mcrae, Wayman Carver, Tommy Fulford, Bobby Johnson, Beverley Peer, Chick Webb) (3:05)
1.05 - Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Kokey Joe (feat. Baron Lee, Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Eddie Mallory, Ed Anderson, George Washington, Henry Hicks, Crawford Washington, Gene Mikell, Joe Garland, Edgar Hayes, Benny James, Hayes Alvis, O'neil Spencer) (3:03)
1.06 - Memphis Jug Band, Hattie Hart - Cocaine Habit Blues (feat. Vol Stevens, Ben Ramey, Charlie Burse, Will Shade, Hambone Lewis) (2:50)
1.07 - The Spirits Of Rhythm - Junk Man (feat. Leo Watson, Wilbur Daniels, Douglas Daniels, Virgil Scoggins, Teddy Bunn, Wilson Myers) (2:41)
1.08 - Charley Jordan - Just a Spoonful (2:38)
1.09 - Slim and Slam, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart - Chinatown, My Chinatown (feat. Sam Allen, Pompey "Guts" Dobson) (2:40)
1.10 - Cab Calloway And His Cotton Club Orchestra - Minnie the Moocher (feat. Edwin Swayzee, Lammar Wright, Doc Cheatham, De Priest Wheeler, Harry White, Arville Harris, Andrew Brown, Eddie Barefield, Walter Thomas, Bennie Payne, Morris White, Al Morgan, Leroy Maxey) (Rare 1933 Alternate Take) (3:37)
1.11 - The Ink Spots - That Cat Is High (feat. Bill Kenny, Ivory "Deek" Watson, Charlie Fuqua, Orville "Hoppy" Jones) (2:56)
1.12 - Josie Miles, Fletcher Henderson - Pipe Dream Blues (3:14)
1.13 - Victoria Spivey, Porter Grainger, Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues (3:16)
1.14 - Carl Martin - That New Kind of Stuff (3:00)
1.15 - Clarence Williams and His Orchestra - Jerry the Junker (feat. Ed Allen, Cecil Scott, James P. Johnson, Floyd Casey) (3:08)
1.16 - Louis Armstrong - Kickin' the Gong Around (feat. Zilmer Randolph, Preston Jackson, Lester Boone, George James, Albert Washington, Charlie Alexander, Mike Mckendrick, John Lindsay, Tubby Hall) (3:13)
1.17 - Leadbelly - Take a Whiff On Me (3:00)
1.18 - Woody Guthrie - Cocaine Blues (2:16)
1.19 - Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day (feat. Billy Banks, Baron Lee, Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson, Henry Hicks, Charlie Holmes, Crawford Washington, Joe Garland, Edgar Hayes, Benny James, Hayes Alvis, O'neil Spencer) (3:03)
1.20 - Slim and Slam, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart - Tuttie Frutti (feat. Sam Allen, Pompey "Guts" Dobson) (2:38)
1.21 - Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - The Ghost of Smokey Joe (feat. Shad Collins, Irving Randolph, Lammar Wright, Doc Cheatham, Claude Jones, Keg Johnson, De Priest Wheeler, Chauncey Haughton, Andrew Brown, Walter Thomas, Chu Berry, Bennie Payne, Danny Barker, Milton Hinton, Cozy Cole) (2:47)
1.22 - George Van Dusen - The Yodelling Chinaman (2:55)
1.23 - Lucille Bogan, Walter Roland - Baking Powder Blues (3:00)
1.24 - Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine? (3:05)