Marijuana\u2014”a musician’s best friend,” according to Louis Armstrong\u2014was outlawed the same year Prohibition was repealed (1933). Both booze and reefer are celebrated on this 40-track collection along with token tributes to cocaine (Charley Patton’s “Spoonful Blues,” later popularized by Cream) and Depression-era high Sterno (Tommy Johnson’s “Canned Heat Blues”). Other joints include “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer” by Amos Milburn, “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” by Stick McGhee, “Take a Whiff on Me” by Leadbelly, “Wacky Dust” by Ella Fitzgerald, “Dope Head Blues” by Victoria Spivy, “Reefer Head Woman”, by Jazz Gillum, “I Got Loaded” by Peppermint Harris, and “Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)” by Bessie Smith. 2 CD set, each about an hour long, a classic collection of booze and drugs — fully matured for over 50 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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