Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues (1930) video free download
Novelty Songs Drug Songs. The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s.The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and jugs blown to supply the bass; they played in a variety of musical styles. The band recorded almost a hundred titles.Between 1927 and 1934 various African-American musicians in the Memphis, Tennessee area grouped around singer, songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player Will Shade (also known as Son Brimmer or Sun Brimmer). The personnel of this jug band varied from day to day, with Shade booking gigs and arranging recording sessions. The band functioned as a training ground for musicians who would go on to success with careers of their own.
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9 years ago
Moozy Mathers
Aw, drugs are so cool.. We'll die anyways at the end, let's taaaaaaaaake some real fun!10 years ago
Lee Groce
Love EVERY THING about this song. Peace10 years ago
Justin Ballinger
If you dont believe cocaine is good just ask alma rose in minglewood...10 years ago
John LaStrada
Excellent. They would have fit in with The Rolling Stones easily. What a great ensemble.11 years ago
JOOODYJOOODY
LIGHTEN up11 years ago
CONSENT44
love the picture. where did you get it?11 years ago
Sodaygo Cortez
in yucatan right now and they got some good tony11 years ago
WT Gator
Cocaine Habit Blues. Drugs are bad mmmmkay kiddies? :P11 years ago
Spyros Pope
i think this particular song had much influence into the music and style of the Rolling Stones...11 years ago
Walter L.
...A little snow im Memphis ?12 years ago
captainparadoxius
I like how most of the comments here would probably fail the turing test.12 years ago
Rsboots
@ozrock17 A lot of narcotics was legal in the 30's, heroin was sell as cure against bad coughs,(It can surely heal all kind of diseases,) Ah Ah Ah...12 years ago
Chairinhand
It's a very cool music!!!12 years ago
paulj0557
@Squarerig They is the government, but I is me. Reality just gets better after you've had a fucked up mess to compare it to.12 years ago
Squarerig
Cocaine is banned as being harmful>Dropping bombs on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan is,however,a salubrious and extremely profitable form of employment-for some,is understood!A world stood upside down!12 years ago
Stomp The Tumbarumba!
@doctorw2 - first documentation of it being a street drug was in 1911, known as powered cocoa - and it became an illegal substance in 194512 years ago
Ipac Merc
my gawd.. the blues....12 years ago
Albert Shivers
Great Song and Great Band! Where did you get the photo from? Do you know who it's of?12 years ago
TurnItBlueToYou1
Love,love,love this....Related Videos
