Keith Richards - Cocaine Blues

[billicks]

Keith Richards is the fuckin' NUTS!!!!!

[TheRealCritique]

Used to be a good-looking guy before the SMACK. That shit takes your looks faster than a beltsander

[picante1312]

cool down Keith; your'e gonna celebrate your'e ninetieht.

[gypsy505nm]

AWESOME soo BLUEZZZy and that guitar-playing'n Keiths voice....WoW!

[TheMusicchannel23]

Davy Graham..

[KingMoses3]

fantastic slide show. really stellar.

[comerone]

you watching all this amazing songs one after the other and out of nowhere there is lady gaga in the relatives and makes you MAD

[Oula]

does anybody know what's the name of the bootleg album this song is from? Originally it was an interview and I used to have it, but I lost my hard drive (V__V). PLEASE HELP ME!!

[clfetter]

keith.

[ristau]

Everytime I try to stop smoking hemp I end up finding this magnificent guy

and immediately I'm convinced that I should go buy some more.

And with no regrets, I do it.

Thanks Keith, Thanks Hemp. But no more cocaine, thanks.

.

[alexmortland]

HOLY HELL, he is the living master of that good ol' Mississippi John Hurt shit. Among other things, of course.

[IZQ2012]

For all of us who suffer from some kind of adiction(alcohol or drugs) this song has a meaning, Only "normal" people wont understand how is to being addict to something, they all see you like a trash or like a people who cannot control his habits, We are more than than, Is like a sickness,,,,

[nickmagger]

wait to see him in 2012, rocking the earth

[9801543]

fuck the pictures !!!!!!!!

[ipwningjake]

Keith richard didn't write this song for the blues, its just the only word that fits nicely with coke

[TheKamanick]

@TouffeDePoile Fucking hell, all you kids do is ask for tabs. Use your fucking ears. It'll make you a better player.

[breton1]

@TheKamanick Amen brother

[ThePoboyms61s]

Stimulus only can not live on C-baby alone. Good tune, only as addicted as you want to be. Lay back and fire one up. ThePoboyms61s

[Bombadil1992]

This is possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard. I suffer from alcoholism and I can relate to this in a huge way, as alcohol has ruined some chances at true love for me. Addiction is a terrible thing. Venting it through beautiful music like this is the best cure.

[LAMF2009]

this doesn't hold a candle to dave van ronks version

[IveGotTheFNBlues]

Anybody can plays the blues u dumb ass

.. anybody with problems has got the blues

[lotrmaster93]

Ain't nobody can play the real blues without going through some hard times. It's the experience that makes the music.

[LongTallYamlaJay]

@lotrmaster93 Sure, start that tired argument again.



[lotrmaster93]

@LongTallYamlaJay What argument?

[mrsmuci62]

Keith we love you!!!! Maria & Bela

[rjmprod]

Fucking Awesome!!!!!

[j62dangelo]

Here ! Here Acoustic Keith Blues...yeah !

[bubb3432]

one of the reasons that this song is so good is that it is about helping people with a problem you once had yourself.

[92doubleface]

he's the best

[rchllrchll]

Gorgeousss man!

[uwy1]

COCAIIIIIIIINE - RUNNING ROUND MY BRAIN ::::::-- ) KEEP ON LOOKING FOR THE REAL THING !

BY uwyOO1

[hoarse01]

Written by Rev GAry Davis and covered by many including Jackson Browne and DAvid Lindley

[shaneh1983]

great cover

[ramrodoffroad]

such a good version... keef is a god

[ZeppelinClassics]

@DarthKazi Hey, get with the times man. It's been decades. He's not a junkie anymore.

[ZeppelinClassics]

@Metayounis I was hoping I wasn't the only that thought that! He does, doesn't he?

[68caddilac]

beautiful feel kiethy,SELF RAISING FLOWERS

[emmawelsh11]

his voice isn't as good as Luke Jordan's, but there's a passion in Keith's voice which makes it just as beautiful.

[MonkeyMarki]

Das beste nach einer durchgezechten Nacht. Man hat annähernd das Gefühl ihn zu verstehen^^ auch wenn das wahrscheinlich niemand jemals ganz tun wird ;) Er ist und bleibt ein Gott des Rock 'n' roll :)

[smilyboi10]

replay, replay,replay

continue sequence

[ultramega67]

A killer performance.And it's awesome the way that the photo montage contours to the music.A work of art,

[jelousetype]

beautiful

[MicawberWilkins]

where can i download this song? :S

[ubgodinez]

Well I belive you´re wrong in the refererences of the song. This is a song by Reverend Gary Davis not Luke Jordan's version of the Cocaine Blues.

[enchantedljoy]

I'd marry him

[walmic1000]

Keith, for Gods sake make an acoustic blues album....this is where your at right about now brother!!

[DeltaDregs]

Respond to this video...  Amen!!!

[JZJYRWO]

@walmic1000 He can't play his guitar like this anymore.

[LiveForeverGoon]

@walmic1000 I've been thinking that for years. It'd be huge. Keith, a guitar and a mic.

[kmbllj]

@walmic1000 Amen, I would love a acoustic solo album from Keith.

[ScooterpupReljac]

@walmic1000

God, if only he would....that would be the ultimate.

[gypsy505nm]

@walmic1000 "AMEN" 

[knot4u11]

Johnny Cash's blues is better

[zdragonforce]

@knot4u11 Troll



[knot4u11]

@zdragonforce ass hair

[zdragonforce]

@knot4u11 This song is so good. :)

[pedrocardutra]

thats just so beautiful

[tuespartana]

Dios,gracias, gracias, graciaaaaaaaaaaaas, q grosso soy mi amor, siempre mio, solo mio

[acesandeights65]

he was ugly from the start

[caerphillykid]

It's a great song, and we love you Keith, but isn't this the same Keith who advised the Yoof not to take up drugs......after he'd used them all up!

[MysteryHunterz]

"Cocaine Blues," is Reverend Gary Davis’ arrangement, an eight-bar blues in C Major. Davis said that he learned the song in 1905 from a traveling carnival musician, Porter Irving.[4][5] This version is made up of rhyming couplets, followed by a refrain "Cocaine, running all around my brain" or "Cocaine, all around my brain").[6] The song is sometimes known as "Coco Blues," as on Davis’ 1965 album Pure Religion and Bad Company.

[Arpayaband]

@BertisEvil66 ass

[gorblimey61]

Melikes the Scrubbers version.

[reptilerick]

There is something haunting about the JB version. Especially with the lap steel. But there is a definite rawness and " I live this shit" attitude in Keiths version that is bar none

[jonski68]

check out jackson brownes version...

[duncdee99]

Keith recorded it in 1928.

[swanski100]

sounds like hes going for a mississippi john hurt sound

[MannyMUC]

Keith sounds like Bob Dylan here

[birdextreme13]

@MannyMUC Bob also did a good version of this. I can't decide which is better though.

[MegaHigh11]

It will kill ya, but they dont say when. :)

[rezdude94]

Just browsing through videos on youtube..and i just love discovering new tunes i never heard like this one..makes you feel good to know its true music never dies

[DonTurnerProductions]

im doin it right now

[Oriel12755]

Keith Richards -' Cocaine| is for horses, its horses' not for for men.' i love this man. He's just gorgeous - a true gentleman with an edge. I could love him to death!!

[basedee]

@wc4blues

Hes is one of the few true rockstars , but for me The rockstar was Jim Morrison.

Thats what i think , everybody has his own opinion :)

[boomboxbadboy]

i would literally PAY to have the tabs for this version...only one i can find is on ultimate guitar and its not too acurate..im serious i would pay.

[reptilerick]

@boomboxbadboy You could adapt the Jackson Brown version. This will at least give you a good start

tabs.ultimate-guitar /j/jackson_browne/cocaine_tab.

[jonski68]

@reptilerick i love his versions!!

[pcollenYT]

@boomboxbadboy : Can't you figure out the chords ? It's a simple progression of C, F, C ,G, C and all you have to do is finger pick and noodle around the chords. In the little "bridge", the chords are E to F and then it goes back into the C,F,C, G, C progression. Now you can literally PAY ME for that info.... ;-)

[JuanDeSoCal]

@boomboxbadboy

I've got it figured out accurately note-for-note now. If I had a video camera I would post demo.

[70goldtop]

@JuanDeSoCal What makes this difficult note for note (I'm assuming) is the fact that it's not standard thumb fingers fingerstyle.He definitely stops with his thumb sometimes when he's supposed to be carrying the bass note.If you learned this note for note it must have taken you a long time.I think I'll give it a whirl myself.

[JuanDeSoCal]

@70goldtop

pcollenYT got the chord progression right. But, yes, it is not as simple as may 1st appear, and it took me a fair amount of effort. Actually though, KR generally keeps the bass note going pretty consistently; listen closely and you will hear it. There are some spots where it drops out, like when he does those bends. Listen here and there for doubled-up (same) notes in quick succession, and for subtle rhythmic shifts when he's on the C chord and hammering repeatedly on the E note.

[MrJimc2]

@70goldtop you're absolutely right; this is in the old east coast piedmont style of finger picking.

even though luke jordan wrote Cocaine blues, this rendition is nothing like jordan's; it is richard's cover of

rev. gary davis' re-duex of the song circa 1950's.

[PoorlyMadeFilms]

Not only the god of guitar but he sings like a chainsmoking angel, too.

[MZVIRB]

Today's kids can't even hold the guitar correctly.

[Korg8000]

@MrPlainsteel Key of C, standard tuning... I think.

[Alaskamike54]

This is fricken FANTASTIC!!!!! There's no one like Keith Richards!

[basedee]

Right on , true rockstar.

They stopped makin them a long time ago.

[wc4dblues]

@basedee when Keith spits out a hangnail, he spits out more HIP than half the worlds population. If it weren't for Keith the word HIP would have no meaning. Your right Keith IS THE rock star.

[KingKook]

@basedee What about Adam Lambert?! That dude's a rock star. And a cock star! Thank you, Thank you. I'm here all week. Try the falafel, it's mostly natural. Ladies and gents, please tip your waiter.

[dragonfitter]

@basedee the record companies dont like old school rock stars as they are hard to control

[sk1mmyj1mmy]

@basedee No they didn't. I'm one.

[micskates420]

@basedee not that they quit making them...they just cant stay alive like keith

[justinjonkmanbcn]

jack sparrows daaaad

[dckjc]

cafeine all around my brain baby

[Rustina61]

Keith was quite the good-looking guy at one time. 

[kustersguitar]

methyl (1R,2R,3S,5S)-3-(benzoyloxy)-8­-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]oct­ane-2-carboxylatet all in my brain

[Mattisfactionn]

@kustersguitar He sure should have sung the chemical name!

[redpetalrock]

ah........che ritmo........relax

[Ozzmanconnection]

Amazing

[TheseBluesAreAllMine]

Keith and I both rock Epiphone's!

[xXGuitarplayer89Xx]

@TheseBluesAreAllMine he would have a gibson, but the 58 kilos of yay and 200 kilos of dope were more important then a brand name guitar haha

[DarthKazi]

Keef gets cocaine blues when he's down to a couple kilos...

[markstonefilmmaker]

@DarthKazi that's so funny! lol 

[515742617000027]

kinda sounds like Make A Pallet On The Floor by Mississippi John Hurt

[kingjoe99]

@515742617000027  It sure does! Listening to what John Hurt recorded in 1927, and hearing that musical thread coming up through the years is really moving. You can see how deeply Keith (and many other British kids) was sunk into the blues, be it delta blues, country blues, whatever. My youthful interest in rock'n'roll opened the door to the blues for me; the Stones had a lot to do with that. I'm glad I caught this song: I did not not know that he had recorded this.

[devoymoe]

Adore this version , and Keith as well of course. I'm a prison officer and I'm afraid to admit that putting addicts in prison does not work . They get it as easy on the inside . It is a pitiful sight to see how low a man will stoop to get drugs

[xwagner76]

Cocaine's for horses, not for men.

[KermitMusix]

@xwagner76 Actually, thats ketamin.

[MesaTheinsane]

Early one morning while making the rounds... i took a shot of cocaine and i shot my women down. I went straight home and i went to bed, and put that lovin .44 beneath my head

[Metayounis]

He kinda look like George Harrison

[LUCUX85]

ohh it's so cute this' fuckin song...a early morning blues to get up with : D

[ermac59]

Great Version!

[RealRockandRoll]

This song was executed in the tradition of Luke Jordan's 1927 song "Cocaine Blues" and The Memphis Jug Band's 1930 song "Cocaine Habit Blues" Yea those oldtimers sure liked the nose candy..... It likely took their minds off the surreal pressures of the time.

[PhaQandyou]

This song is crap. Drug addicts should be imprisoned and the dealers hung from a tall tree with a short rope. Drugs are a city problem; mainly in black neighborhoods. Us good country folks don't have the same problem. Sure we might see an alcoholic in a few families but for the most part we are good honest hard working folk. I might just be some young kid or a dumb cowboy but I don't think they should have songs glorifying drug use on a web site children use. And that's just how I feel.

[martini2o]

@PhaQandyou Perhaps you should realy take a listen to the song itself. and look into the lyrics. its written to have a different meaning than what you think. just because its called "Cocaine Blues" (and the only word you probably heard is Cocaine), does not mean it is glorifying it. perhaps you should try opening your mind and taking it in with a different perspective, and you may see what it realy means.

[Disburden]

@PhaQandyou

Alcohol kills more people in this country than any drug combined. FACT.

[PhaQandyou]

@Disburden Yes you're correct in saying that but I still stand by my previous post.

[ktrfeb23]

@PhaQandyou

That's right. You good clean country folk are into crystal meth. That's the drug of choice for rural America. So go chew your face off why you pat yourself on the back you ignorant hick.

And the song is about what's wrong with doing coke. There's not a word in the song that says anything good about cocaine.

[ktrfeb23]

@PhaQandyou

Here are a few musicians from rural America who had serious drug problems:

Willie Nelson, Hank Williams 1, 2, and 3, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Glen Campbell...just about everybody else.

A bunch of white singers from the rural south and midwest who were into cocaine, heroine and other hardcore drugs.

[PhaQandyou]

@ktrfeb23 Yes you're correct. Once all those musicians left the south and went to work for Yankees and moved to big cities they were corrupted. However once they came back to their roots many of them beat their addictions and went on to live healthy lives.

[malkooth]

@PhaQandyou Maybe you should stick to sucking the fat rodeo cock instead of trying to think. You're an embarrassment to white trash everywhere.

[PhaQandyou]

@malkooth Thank you for respecting my right to express a opinion and for your intelligent and well mannered response. You are obviously a man of class and a true gentleman.

[VBAadmin]

@PhaQandyou Drug addicts should be imprisoned? So you think the war on drugs is working... at all?

[PhaQandyou]

@VBAadmin No, I think it is a complete failure. That is why I think drug dealers should be lynched and the users imprisoned somewhere with good addictions counseling. However, it all starts at home. Good parents raise good children. Bad parents well... just look at the blacks in America today and what percentage of them make up the current prison populations and draw your own conclusions. So I hope that answers your question and if not well I guess your shit out of luck.

[VBAadmin]

@PhaQandyou Users imprisoned? How? Isn't that exactly what the war on drugs is?

The reason that prohibition of alcohol/drugs never works is because organized crime always manages to come out on top in situations like these. Hell, it's not that hard to grow weed or opium at home and smoke or sell the stuff.

And lynching people is certainly not going to make it into our lawbooks, haha.

[PhaQandyou]

@VBAadmin Okay, I'll concede your point that prohibition doesn't work and that my proposed lynchings are not likely to become common policy any time soon. But what is your alternative? Mass legalization? Do we legalize some drugs and not others? Which get legal status and how do we decide? The fact is drugs, and I'm including alcohol here as well, are a blight on our society and should at the very least not be glorified by some musician that young kids may look up to. Especially not on YouTube.

[VBAadmin]

@PhaQandyou My alternative? I have none. I don't think anyone that doesn't directly and aggressively disturb the lives of other citizens should be imprisoned; that includes all drug users, incestuous couples, racists, etc.... So long as the respective party remains peaceful, they certainly don't need to be jailed.

Oh, sure, some psychoactive substances are a nuisance. Others are medicine. Some are fun (the USA currently sees alcohol as such). Some songs promotes drugs, others don't. It happens.

[PhaQandyou]

@VBAadmin Looks like neither of us will get our way. I'm glad to have had a conversation on YouTube where even though we disagree neither of us are hurling four letter words at one another. Take it easy VBAadmin.

[VBAadmin]

@PhaQandyou Ah, I just got your comment; ignore my last one, I don't mean to continue an unwanted argument, haha. Take it easy.

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

- Voltaire

[VBAadmin]

@PhaQandyou Additionally, the notion that drugs "are a blight on our society" is but an opinion. You might think just that, but there are plenty of folks that would argue the opposite. Junkies are people, no less than you or I.

Only YOU (not the government) should teach your kids not to use drugs. You are as free as the next man over; don't trample on his rights unless he does so to yours.

[ariageaful]

was this song really recorded in 2008?

can you believe it? this man is playing this extraordinary song at 64 years old.

Long life to Keith!!

[stevobath]

Prefer JON MARTYN version!

[dannyofthededd]

shame really but not really that us idiots needed angels like richards and elvis to show us what real life angel dudes had been trying to say for years and years..have we learned anything??

have we fook

[Bobjb999]

1st time i heard this song was seeing '60s folkie Dave Van Ronk live at The Riverboat Coffee House,Toronto,early '70s.(A young Dylan once aspired to being as big as Dave van Ronk).The song sounded great then&most versions I've heard since,including Keith's,do too.Even Sinatra sang about cocaine in Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You": Some they may go for cocaine I'm sure that if I took even one sniff It would bore me terrifically, too Yet, I get a kick out of you

[TigerIQ]

@Bobjb999 Keith did a version of "I Get A Kick Out of You," too! It's found on the 4 disc studio bootleg "Voodoo Bew." He plays it right after "Cocaine.".. I guess it made him think of it! :)

[paulj0557]

I see crack and I see liars I see smack and I see diars

put'm together what do you get?

...one stupid son of a bitch!

are you done yet?

[LUCUX85]

do everybody knows in witch tune is this song? To me it appears to be in open G but i haven't my guitar here so...i don't know

[12barbluez]

@LUCUX85 I think its in the key of C played in standard tuning which is an easier way of getting the bends than to play it in open tuning IMHO. Plus I believe RGD was more of a standard tuning key of C kinda man.

[12barbluez]

@LUCUX85 I think its in the key of C played in standard tuning which is an easier way of getting the bends than to play it in open tuning IMHO. Plus I believe RGD was more of a standard tuning key of C kinda man.

[LUCUX85]

@12barbluez thank you man...

[karl198]

@12barbluez

This is correct. The song is C, F and G and then Eminor and F in the refrain part. Hard to get that sound down though.

[12barbluez]

@karl198 I agree not an easy one to get right. I think its C to E major to F in the bridge rather than Em. See what you think

[karl198]

@12barbluez

Not sure, it could be, Emajor still works well in there though but i dunno, he only plucks the E chord breifly and very softly so it's kinda hard to tell. I think also that this might be tuned slightly sharp or flat of standard , maybe not by much though.

[ShredSurfSkateRepeat]

coke makes me a delightful helpful citizen coke and a stiff drink makes me a fuckin menace alcohols bad for you

[plonker00765]

drugs is for mugs, this song however is brilliant !!

[monadasmoinas]

Cocaine took me friend .

[footscraysteve]

I heard keith in an interview say when he first recorded this he didnt even know what cocaine was

[The12Child]

@footscraysteve This was not the first time he did that didn't he now :))

[rfowler416]

This is absolutely not the same song as Luke Jordan or Dick Justice's 1920's recordings. Flat out false. They just both happen to center on cocaine.

[neonbladedotcom]

@rfowler416 Yeah isn't this a cover of Mississippi John Hurt's song? (or at least his version of an earlier song)?

[rfowler416]

This is absolutely not the same song as Luke Jordan or Dick Justice's 1920's recordings. Flat out false. They just both happen to center on cocaine.

[ChaliQ1]

Outstanding acoustic player, but who didn't know that.

[unimportantnoname]

we need a song like this about cigarettes!

[youdevil6]

@unimportantnoname YUCK!

[justhurryupduuuude]

@unimportantnoname Really....?

[unimportantnoname]

@justhurryupduuuude not?

[ThePhilippe01]

is that thing on a record ?

[theCHSCAorg]

My old friend Edwin used to move me to tears singing this. Maybe more like growling. He knew whereof he sang.

He used to say he was gonna cut me 3 ways: long, deep, and often.

Wonder whatever happened to him.

[exaltica]

keefs just allright

[unap68]

ANYBODY ELSE CAN`T SING THIS SONG SO FINE! LISTEN LISTENREALLY HARD!

[jussymucky]

yunt

[Keithaholic1]

Keithaholic Records!! ROCKS!!

[cece33372]

mitico!!!