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Artist: Rev. Gary Davis
Author: Gary Davis
Label: Folklyric/Shanachie
Year: 1957
As an instrumental (Coco Blues) and vocal version ('62). The line "I got cocaine, round and around my brain" in several vocal versions resurfaced in Dillinger's Cocaine In My Brain. The Rev. refused to sing the vocal version live (see: Candy Man).
Covers:
Rambling Jack Elliott [first released vocal version]
Bob Dylan [Minnesota tape bootleg]
Richard Farina & Eric Von Schmidt [with Bob Dylan under alias Blind Boy Grunt]
Jackson Browne [with David Lindley on Running On Empty]
See also the Cocaine Blues from '27 (Luke Jordan), '47 (Red Arnall) and see also Little Sadie.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors, please let us know by contacting us:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)