Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues

[ImpalerXll]

yeeee hawwww!!!! 

[sarge6925]

looks like farting was used as an instrument back then lol!

[SlainDane]

The guy in blue looks like Obama

[Kilabyte21]

@SlainDane interesting but what are your sources? I would like to read into it a little more...

[KingCarlAmari]

@SlainDane

They all look the same though don't they

[rattmann36863]

Bet ya won't hear this one on your local oldies station...ha!!

[MaabudZ]

The premise that this music is blues is at least partially incorrect. The MJB was actually string band music and somewhat distinct from blues. Certainly most if not all modern music evolved from the earlier stuff. By that same premise one could say that Hip Hop evolved from the Yarum songs of the Fra Fra tribesmen of North Ghana. Actually that might not be too far off.

[joshuarayborn]

Jug bands are cool as hell

[imramblindad]

I dig it. Old Crow Medicine Show's rendition does it justice. It's always good to be introduced to a classic folk song by a current contemporary artist, just to go back to research it's origins and discover the original is still a great piece of music. A good song can stand the course of time. It's a shame that artists today don't draw from their roots more extensively.

[CCP2]

fucking owns

[worldloveman]

i really think the roots of rap can be traced back to this and a lot of other blues. it was a stepping stone.

[MAhee]

Moreeeeeeee

[MrRealdeal86]

this tuff is awesome...gotta love music history im only 23 and i love it more people need to be exposed to this music its a shame

[MrCamel1974]

real music not like this so called music now days

[19bdw89]

Old Crow does a great cover of this.

[ithu45]

this is great thanks for posting!

[ithu45]

this is great please keep posting!

[SuperMemphis89]

this is the real roots of hip hop.

[seanranspot]

@SuperMemphis89 More or less the roots of R&B...

[mooareyouhappynow]

this is amazing, thank you for posting this!

[alexandermalskaer]

does anyone know when this awesome tune is from? :D

[capajo02]

@alexandermalskaer between 1929 and 1934. That is my guess. I have the collected recordings of the Memphis Jug Band from that period and this is included. If the recordings are chronological in my collection, then this would fall in 1932 or '33, but I'm not positive.

[alexandermalskaer]

@capajo02 Thanks, that was very useful! Props

[capajo02]

@alexandermalskaer No problem... I just read something that listed this recording as completed in 1930. Don't know if that is right either, but it may be a better guess than mine.

[MrLeadbelly]

go for it tackle nose LET ME IN!!!!!

[marto177]

hola mama

[50Zengy]

The First Rappers in Da World . The First who used Rhymes in Their Lyrics

[iwannabeyourdog1969]

"honey take a wiff on me" ? , like the verses jack white sings in under blackpool lights?

[toansavoo]

Yes, correct... Jack likes the blues and knows his classics!

[MrDavey1]

On a Woody Guthrie track too is it not?

[snubbs741]

@iwannabeyourdog1969 hahaha well actually Leadbelly is probably more well known for "take a whiff"

[NSAshow]

ok listen to the then listen to triky by run dmc then amill by lil wayne its amazing

[gitfiddlejim]

Can you stick MJB,s "Gator Wobble" on here, for all the folks to rock to, great Jab Jones piano on it.

G

[toansavoo]

I dont see to have that one, sorry. If i find it, i'll put it on!

[subjecttovalidity]

ppl what it is

all types of modern western music came from blues

not only rap

these people

the blues musicians

are the founding FATHERS of the music we know and love

thats y ppl still listen 2 this junk

cuz its the best shyt you cn put in yo ears

[deadbeatdynamo]

All music has at it's origin the beating of the heart, This is the primal, unrelenting source of rhythm at the root of all forms of musical expression.

[tinjarir]

@subjecttovalidity Actually, Rap is a cousin to Blues. Research music from colonial Jamaica (quadrilles, contra dance) and you'll see that the mixing of European melodies and African rhythms produced a style called Mento. From Mento came Ska, which then morphed into something called Toasting, which is the direct father of Rap. It would be more accurate to say that Western pop music is more closely related to Reggae than Blues. It doesn't matter that much anyway because all music is related.

[leadbelly39]

unprecedented.

[brintafear]

Yeaaah (H)

[sayckeone]

THIS IS REAL HIP HOP! WORD!

[avenueq14]

its not that rap came directly from this, its that their lyrical content and rhythmic singing predated rap, and is similar

[lebs123]

rapping came from this?

[gangstayakuza]

yes.

[fredhouse3]

more please..love them

[heyyyman1]

the old crow medicine show cant touch this this is spectacular

[MistaBusta901]

Hip-Hop originated from this. Right?

[toansavoo]

Not really, but i do think it had something to do with blues yeah

[McElroyPad]

@toansavoo Lyrics this brutal are typical of hip-hop style, white man would not have sung anything like this at the time

Almost like cypress hill with some of the dirty kazoo/jug sounds in back

[GreatGonzoMusic]

@McElroyPad That is pretty generalized... if you apply that same though to any race you could get the same result. Did you know that the banjo actually came over from Africa with black slaves. One has to ask what you gain by listening to this if you don't like it, but since you think that bad music has something to do with race you risk looking like a jackass to everyone that doesn't. History is not on your side.

[ElvizaPelvis]

@McElroyPad Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, and many others of that era had songs about murder and other forms of death. I once had a banjo player come over and we spent the evening singing songs- at the end I said "Do you realize somebody died in every song?" We had a good laugh about that. Young Freda Bolt, Banks of the Ohio (there is a drowning version and a stabbing version), Knoxville Girl (based on way older murder songs), lots more. Check 'em out... :o)

[sergiozc]

@toansavoo it actually did bro,

[TheBrowndawg]

@MistaBusta901 if you want to see how hip hop is related to the blues, check out muddy waters electric mud, come on in by rl burnside maggot brains by funkadelic and just do me right by asie payton. the vocals wont sound too familiar to you but the beats will.

[birinbirinbirin]

@MistaBusta901 it didnt realy come from blues but if it wasnt for blues it wouldnt exist i cant realy explain it.

[undercutterable]

@MistaBusta901 best hip hop i ever herd lol

[undercutterable]

@MistaBusta901

[glushglush7]

@MistaBusta901 rap originated from these guys then hip hop branched off from rap later on in the 80s thats what i learned

[DRTMaverick]

@glushglush7 Bluegrass also originated from this as well, I think it's a mix of roots as well.

[scandalous217]

Thanks for adding this awesome song

[toansavoo]

You're welcome

[ZMoulton]

This is one of my all time favorites Good to see it here..

[toansavoo]

Yeah this is one of the best! Glad you aprreciate it!