Cocaine Blues

[ibuprofen303]

This is something special, this vid. The guitar playing is sublime, especially at the end few bars where he wanders off into a little ragtime bit.

[kickingmule]

@ibuprofen303 Mr Rev Gary Davis is perhaps the most versatile Blues/Rag and Gospel Guitar player. You never know what he is up to, but in the end I think its very good Music !

Peace !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Urban

[followthebeat66]

also hat hannes wader hier geklaut...aha...aha...

[kickingmule]

@MrRobertDallasJames Ya, its Mr Rev Gary Davis !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

PEACE Bro !

Urban

[ms1972a]

cheers bro!

[kickingmule]

@ms1972a Mati, Thanks !

Stay Cool !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

PEACE !

Urban



[freewheelinQ]

Give that poor bastard who dislike this song a little cocaine to stop being so bitter!!!

[kickingmule]

@freewheelinQ Thanks Bro !

Peace !

Urban

[effoff22]

This song comes from the very early 1900's when cocaine was in Coca-Cola and most patent medicines. This song probably originated with a patent medicine show. So it isn't meant to reflect modern knowledge, etc. Also, if you do some research, the song "Spoonful" is actually about sex. Easy to misinterpret. See it as you want.

[kickingmule]

@effoff22 I really appreciate comments like this !

I hope, the discussion is over now, cause, I as a Swede, has no chance to interpret the lyrics. All I know its a good song by Mr Rev Gary Davis !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[ssalty]

@effoff22 Why would a patent medicine show perform a song that says "...cocaine will kill you"? You're pretty ignorant about something you're posting for the world to see? Look into your music history. You're right about the date though. Even the Rev. Gary Davis was doing a cover of the song, which he had grown up listening to.

[kickingmule]

@ssalty I post the World to listen to one of the Best Bluesmen, I don't care about lyrics, though you are right !

Thansk for the ´comment and listening !'

PEACE !

Urban

[adam88356]

dude are you seriously sayin you didnt know spoonfull was about drugs???? evry1 is dyin about that spoonfull spoonfull SPOONFULL!!

[kickingmule]

@adam88356 Sorry to say, I present good Original Blues. That's all !

This is good Blues !

OK, I DON'T agree with the lyrics !!!

PEACE !

Urban

[misanthropicagenda1]

cocaine is god's way of saying you have way too much money, dude

[kickingmule]

@misanthropicagenda1 OK, I'm broke, so that's why I present this very good song by Rev Gary Davis !

Peace Bro !

Urban

[elimarcus]

Nope,

Lovin' Spoonful (or just Spoonful) is a different song, different rhythm, completely different lyrics.

There are many different variations on the Cocaine song in the Folk/Blues tradition, look for songs about "whiffin" or "take a whiff" for example - Leadbelly had a completely different arrangement for his Cocaine song (with the chorus, "High , high, baby take a whiff on me")

[ArcticEmmet]

This is lovin' spoonful except he says cocain instead of spoonful, I never realized that that song is probably about drugs too

[kickingmule]

@ArcticEmmet Whatever the lyrics are, its a wonderful song by Rev Gary Davis, that's why I did the upload !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban, in Gothenburg, Sweden

[bostonteabagger71739]

@ArcticEmmet you know they used little itty bitty spoons to dip into the cocaine and snort off of? thats what i always thought when i heard the lovin spoonful song.

[milascave2]

@bostonteabagger71739 Young folks can't believe we was that blatent about it in the seventies.

[zipsnap]

This song isn't about cocaine. It's definitely about Rev. Gary Davis. By the way, don't ever mention Eric Clapton in the same sentence as actual musicians. Nobody needs a fucking history lesson about blues or cocaine. Anyone watching a Rev. Gary Davis vid knows more about blues or history than you ever will.

[kickingmule]

@zipsnap Thanks for the comment and listening !

I say as I wrote in my note to the song :

Note :

The best ragtime/bluesman is Reverend Gary Davis, I think. So please listen to him.

That's all you need !

An Original !!!

Peace !

Urban,

The Kicking Mule

[pchiare]

@zipsnap Eric Clapton was an actual musician in Cream and Blind Faith.

[wuss81]

@zipsnap So Harsh ! Take it down a notch brother.......It's fucking YOUTUBE !! You get what you get.

[crazymanwhois]

@zipsnap No need to get all pissy, jack.

[4ElmoNiel]

i belong in the cocaine hall of fame sit me between john holmes and rick james

[kickingmule]

@4ElmoNiel Well, I'll do my best to place you on the right place, but thank you very much for your comment and liastening !

Peace Bro !

Urban

[69frolic]

thank you!

[kickingmule]

@69frolic My Pleasure !

Thanks Brother !

Urban

[UmbrellaFlight]

who the fuck disliked this???

[joshmolina3]

@UmbrellaFlight some one who was WAYYYYY to high on cocain. 

[hounddig]

Man did you ever try to count this stuff?

[kickingmule]

@hounddig I don't know what you mean, but I just upload Good Stuff ( Music ) !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

Have a nice weekend

[TheEDZEPPELINBAND]

@dragonfitter- he doesnt saythis cocaineisnt giving up yet;he's saying" this cocaine is givin' 'em a fit"

[amsterdanjah]

PRETTY SONG, "IT'S TYM DAT WE OPEN WIT A TUNDA SOUND" STRONG VOICE, TREMENDOUS GUITAR VYBE!

TNX A LOT KICKING, XPECIAL GHOUST VYBE FRUM U.M.U.F BRASIL DOS PALMARES!

AMSTERDANJAH! "DA COTTON FIELD MULE"!

[rodney1238]

"sweet" just "sweet" thank for posting it. color is in the heart if you can feel it you understand the meaning of it.let the rest go please

[kickingmule]

@rodney1238 Ya, I agree, "sweet" as candy and good ! So, let's keep it in our minds : The Old Blues Is Always Alive !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace and A Happy New Year !

Urban, in Gothenburg, Sweden

[revnasteewaters57]

These old bluesmen like the Rev. lived a hard life. These young wimp's today can't measure up. Alcohol and drug's were an exscapism for them. It was Jim Crow time and they hardly got paid. You can hear the frustation in their voice when they sing. White blues players can never get that deep.

[kickingmule]

@revnasteewaters57 Youre so right ! Nobody can play ölike Rev Gary Davis. And white Bluesplayers can't give the feeling of the Blues !

Thanks for a good comment and liatening !

Prace my Friend !

Urban

[tobyisatramp]

@revnasteewaters57 extremely ignorant, cliche and incorrect

[kickingmule]

@tobyisatramp Yes, I agree in what you are saying, BUT the Blues is all about feelings, or as the Old Bluesmen said : "We play for the Devil on Saturday evening and for God on Sunday Morning".

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[revnasteewaters57]

@tobyisatramp Is it something I said?

[revnasteewaters57]

@tobyisatramp Who created blues music?

[rocknroll1able]

@revnasteewaters57 So, are you saying white people dont have feelings? Black or White, you have feelings, you have the blues. Everybody does. Color of your skin doesnt change your true human emotions. Don't make race a factor in this great music. Whites, Blacks, Asians, everybody has emotions. Blues

[revnasteewaters57]

@rocknroll1able White people sure didn't have feelings during slavery times. But white people do blues it's cool but it's not authentic. At one time they called it nigger music and didn't want to hear it. Now everyone claims the blues. Did you know that most black people have abandone the blues? So I guess it's good that white people try to keep it alive. Im not racist or anything like that but I do know the history of the blues it's my peoples music.

[mvktr2]

@revnasteewaters57 Rev, you're absolutely correct it is black culture and most accurately southern black culture. However anthropologically speaking the blues is an amazing fusion of rhythm/drum (from west Africa), diddly bow/1 string instrumentation (from north Africa), rhythms/lyrics/stringed & wind instrumentations (from Europe particularly Scotland, Ireland, & England). Old time blues men talked about singing a 'reel' as children, being taught reels as children. This is a very Scottish.

[revnasteewaters57]

@mvktr2 The real blues started in the cotton fields of the south during slavery times. It was also used as a signal by the field hollerers to pass messages from one plantation to the other. It was music of the oppressed negroes. I agree what you say about Africa. The first string instrument was created in Egypt. Charlie Patton was the first blues recording star and he learned it from the field hands on Dockery plantation in missisippi.

[kickingmule]

@revnasteewaters57 Yes, you are right in all what you are saying and I have to admit, I didn't know Charlie Patton learned/based his playing from the fields on Dockery plantation, Mississippi !

Well, I do know, that the hollering on the Cotton-fields back then, is the root to all Blues.

As a curiousity, sometimes the cotton-field workers were not allowed to sing/holler, cause the Boss, thought they gave "secret" messages to each other !

Thanks for a very good comment and listening !

[francescaemc2]

Hi, Urban, just saw your posting!!! How are you? How is your grandchild?

hugs over the pond, francesca

[kickingmule]

@francescaemc2 I'm fine, thank you. How are you ? As a Granddad, you have no responsiliby, but play with the little child Louise and when you are tired, you just say thanks for the loan ! *smile*

Hugs !

Urban

[desertrat218]

I enjoyed listening to this, can't help but wonder when this version was recorded.

[kickingmule]

@desertrat218 Hi fellow Blueslover ! I think it was recorded at Rev Gary Davis publisher's office in NY in the sixties. Well, its hard to tell, wild guess, cause he did some recordings there. Stefan Grossman was the man who invited a lot of Bluesmen, so I think its true !

Peace Brotther !

[bigtarrose]

As the Rev tells it, and Luke Jordan (1927), Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton tell it Cocaine=Blues. Maybe Buck Cherry will grow up someday and realize the blues ain`t worth the high. Freud finally realized it and Conan Doyle lived in a fantasy world. Today it has become a cancer due to strict prohibition. 28,000 dead in Mexico will attest to this.

[kickingmule]

@bigtarrose Hi, this is a VERY GOOD comment and I appreciate it !

I upload songs aking to the Blues I like, but I know the lyrics here and the cocaine kills people.

My intention is to present different old styles in Blues and Gospel and keep the oldies alive here on Youtube.

Drugs have always been a trouble to society.

But as you say, its become a cancer !

That's too bad !

Thanks for the a very good comment and listening !

Peace my friend !

Urban

[bigchiefadopethiefa]

@bigtarrose who's giving this crap comment thumbs up

[kickingmule]

@bigchiefadopethiefa The ones who Love The Blues !

Tanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Bro !

Urban

[bigtarrose]

@bigchiefadopethiefa peeps that found out the truth about doing this crap dope

[XQlusiveProductions]

Wow, this is the first blues song I ever listened to, and I'm loving it! Thanks for sharing and making my life richer! 5* :)

[kickingmule]

@XQlusiveProductions You know, the Blues comes in different shapes and forms, but its all about feelings and daily life.

I'm glad you liked it.

As you say, The Blues makes your Life richer and to me it's part of my Life, wether I'm sad or glad ! So, its a handy thing, always by your side.

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[karl198]

Beautiful, what a soulful song.

[kickingmule]

@karl198 Thanks karl ! You know what the Blues ia all about and Rev Gary Davis is/was for sure the Best !

Peace Bro !

[olsongirl5]

Anyone have the lyrics writen out for this version?

[kickingmule]

@olsongirl5 Sorry, I don't know the lyrics, but its Rev Gary Davis singing/talking, so what can you expect of him ? *smile*

A true Bluesman !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[BluesBurner]

Idk Blind Willie McTell is probly my favorite ragtime blues player. Tough choice.

[Alphabex8]

I think this man influenzed Townes Van Zandt. anyone hear his guitar similar to Townes??

[peteholm]

Den bästa versionen som någonsin gjorts med denna titel. Har själv vinylskivan, men har aldrig sett denna version på CD. Rev Gary Davis gjorde många olika inspeningar av denna låt, denna är suverän.

[kickingmule]

Tack Peter,

Visst är det en go inspelning, hämtad från en gammal go vinylskiva.

Kanske samma som du har ? Kommer inte ihåg, när och varifrån jag förde över den till digital form.

Män vad tusan gör dä, så länge dä ä go musik, som vi säger på Götebosska !

Ha dä gött !

Urban

PS. Hur mår ditt finger/tumme ? Din musik låter i alla fall Bra !

[rupertacdc]

awesome. shame im probably the only kid in my school who likes this stuff. if you havn't already, listen to john martyn's cover of this.

[kickingmule]

Hi Rupert !

Yes, I think its a shame youngsters don't listen to the old Blues !

You have a lot of good music there and it never Die. ( As long as I'm alive ! *smile* )

You see, I'm a collector of Old Blues and Gospel 1902 - 1943.

Yes, I play the Blues and its a hobby of mine !

Please, tell your friends, to listen to The Blues !

Peace, My Friend !

Urban

[bigdjindustriez]

@kickingmule I'm an 18 year old musician, I play and listen to almost strictly very old folk and blues. Don't stereotype everyone by what a few idiots do :)

[kickingmule]

@bigdjindustriez I upload songs, I like and thats all. I'm just an old man, a collector of Old Blues & Gospel !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[sellobic]

@bigdjindustriez Great comment

[meximetal96]

@rupertacdc yeah me too. i bet me and maybe only one other person in my jr. high appreciated the real blues, well now i'm off to high school and hopin' i won't be the only one;)

[rupertacdc]

@meximetal96 good to hear. At what age do you start 'high school'? I live in England so we have a different system here.

[meximetal96]

@rupertacdc i start at age 14. in fact i'm turning 14 in a few days

[theunknownmystic]

Love it. His voice sort of reminds me of R.L. Burnside a little bit or maybe it's vice versa? Peace.

[kickingmule]

This one is number one on my channel.

I don't know if its the song or the cocaine, but I think its a wonderful song.

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace Brother.

[foleydvm]

magical thanks so much

[kickingmule]

Its me thanking you !

The Blues is alive, thanks to you and others who listen.

Peace Brother !

[foleydvm]

magical

[foleydvm]

magical

[jjmiphoto]

Superb... Just awesome.

[kickingmule]

Thanks for the comment and listening.

By the way, You have good taste in Music !

Peace !

Urban

[BrotherRabbit007]

I Just Found Out About Gary Davis And He's Almost Instantly Become My Favorite Musician. There's Just Something Magical Him.

[kickingmule]

Thanks Brother !

If you have found Rev Gary Davis, you have no need to search for good Blues sound, anymore.

So, please, Take It Easy, But Take It !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[mARCarchitectureaz]

try the smithsonian collection. maybe it's there.

[kickingmule]

Well,

I have it, so why not give an adress and I send it. Its MP3 format here, but I have it on a LP somewhere ! Can't find the title now, but please, let me know if you want something from me !

IT'S FREE !!!

PEACE !

Urban

[TheBluesB4Sunrise]

thanks for posting, the Rev is IT man...

[kickingmule]

Your'e so right !!!

Gary is the MAN !!!

Thanks for the comment and listening !

PERACE !

[NARUFLHENDRIX]

so good !

[kickingmule]

Ya, its a good song and Rev G Davis is perhaps the Best Rag/Blues - Guitarists ever !???

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Urban

[HieronymousLex]

It's a shame you cant get this on cd.. Can you send me it?

[kickingmule]

Tanks for the comment and listening !

Of course, I send it to you !

Peace !

Urban

The Kicking Mule

[poohen223]

Bob Dylan introduced me to this song, then Nick Drake, & I guess Keith Richards did it too, this beats 'em all

[kickingmule]

Many artists have done covers of this good song, but as I always say. Originals are the best or at least Rev Gary Davis is !!!

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[graveyrobot]

wow this is a really good song, he is a great story teller, man those were the days.........

[kickingmule]

Ya, I agrre, those were the days, but somehow, I try to keep the oldies alive and Rev Gary Davis is one of the Best !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[fscofi]

Thanks for posting and introducing me to the Rev.!

[kickingmule]

It's me thanking you for listening !

If you know Rev Gary Davis and his sound, you know a lot about the Blues !

The best Blues-Ragtime-player all time, they say ! I agree !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[fscofi]

Your knowledge of the important music of our early recording age and the eclectic mix is a joy to me. I have done a lot of research on the music from Appalachia and some of the true blues players but you put almost anyone to shame with your collection.

[kickingmule]

Thanks to You, the Old Blues Is Alive !!! Without listeners, all my work I've put into it, is Nothing !!! We are both in the same boat, so to speak ! We share information and of course Sound !!! Someone once said. "The Blues Is Nothing, But A Pain ! But A Good One ! " Thanks for the comment and keep the spirit up ! We never give up !!! Peace ! Urban

[bigkingbud]

i think you one reason we can call him reverend is becasue he was/is a teacher of the blues not just a player.

[kickingmule]

You are so right !

Once he was asked in a interview :

When is it time for a young git player to play in front of a public ?

Answer by Rev G Davis : You don't pick the audience, They pick You !!!

Thanks for the comment and listening

Peace Brother !

Urban

[RAPEOL]

You got to love this man, he's got an amazing voice and his picking guitar style is unique. I discovered this songster several months ago in London, listening musicat a friends home...he seems to be well respected here in England.

[kickingmule]

There is only ONE Rev Gary Davis and that's all you need to know. His "ragtime-blues", is just Great !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[xxxxharp]

Thanx Urban, Another classic !!!!! Jay

[kickingmule]

Hi Jay !

Ya, old ones as usual and perhaps the songs few have heard the original, but I upload what I like, so I dont care about stars and so forth, but I appreciate good comments and listening, so

Thanks Brother !

Urban

[lostintheblues]

damn i love this song i must learn it now....

cheers urban!

[kickingmule]

Kelsey, you learn it soon.

It's the G Davis style and as far as I know he always play in the key of C, and sometimes capoed somewhere on the neck. Alternating bass.

C-F-C-G-C-F-C-G-C is the chord progression in a similar song "You Got The Pocketbook And I Got The Key" by G Davis.

Try it !

I think it will do !???

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Bro !

Urban

[dragonfitter]

i love it when sayes about not sleeping " this cocaine isnt giving up yet " that is so true

[JLamarsVids]

@dragonfitter you don't say? hmmm...

[kickingmule]

@JLamarsVids Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !



[CONNOOORRLAAAA]

wish there was footage of davis playin this

[kickingmule]

Ya, I wish there were some video of this song by G Davis, but I'm glad we have the sound. The best sound you can get when it comes to ragtime-blues guitar.

Peace Brother

Urban

[CONNOOORRLAAAA]

have you seen the Revs 7 minute gospel song on seegers Rainbow Quest, with Donovan n Shawn Philips?

whats that song called?

[neonmeat1]

Children of Zion

It is amazing!

[edcerc]

he plays children of zion too, i think that might be 7 min

[Sawtooth24]

"Oh Glory How Happy I Am" I think its called.

[CONNOOORRLAAAA]

nuthin like blues for solid gold truth from dirt poor toilers

[kickingmule]

You are right,

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace.

[Catingaround]

I'm glad Hot Tuna and Jorma Kaukonen play Reverend Gary Davis, they are the ones that brought me to him.

Thanks for posting this, great picture too.

[kickingmule]

Thanks ! Mr Rev Gary Davis is the Man, if you wanna listen to old ragtime-blues.

Listen to him and you are stuck !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[richardyingren]

I lost this elsewhere now its back agn - thanks - wonderful!

[kickingmule]

Good stufff never die.

I had a little problem with my uploads, but now, we are back in business.

Thanks Brother !

Urban

[PanamaHammock]

I wish I could play this. Is it in standard tuning?

[PanamaHammock]

Nevermind, it is :)

[ib2fast]

Never heard this before. Nice Job! KUDOS & *****

[kickingmule]

Many try to play this one and they do it good, but it's Rev Gary Davis who is the Champ !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[Doobierollerz]

Doesn't get any better..

[kickingmule]

If Rev Gary Davis is around, it's always good.

Thanks for your comment and listening.

Peace.

Urban

[slacka75vt]

thanks for posting the original and not some "whack ass" version by a wannabe !

[kickingmule]

As a collector of old Blues and Gospel, I try to upload old originals, as much as I can !

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace.

Urban

[aokeh]

kickingmule, thanks so much for putting Cocaine Blues back up. I just about broke down when it disappeared from youtube.

On what album can I find this version of Cocaine Blues? I only have an instrumental version of the reverend playing this song.

[kickingmule]

I have had a little trouble on my channel, but now I'm back, for sure.

It's hard to get the album, but if you want the song, I send it to you in MP3-format, so please, send a mess and tell your e-mail and you have it. Ya, you can trust me !!!

Peace Brother !

Urban

[Jornev]

Instant favourite, this one.

[kickingmule]

Ya, Gary Davis, is one of my favorites, when it comes to ragtime-blues.

Thanks for commenting and listening.

Peace.

Urban