Grateful Dead Family Discography: Cocaine Habit Blues

Cocaine Habit Blues (aka Take A Whiff On Me)

Composer: Traditional

Cocaine Habit Blues was performed by the pre-Dead group Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964.

The earliest recording of Cocaine Habit Blues appears to be that by the Memphis Jug Band. The song also occurs as Take A Whiff On Me. Writing credits on some recordings are Jennie Mae Clayton. Most recordings have Traditional.

The song Tell It To Me which was performed by the Grateful Dead and by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman is often listed on set lists and tape labels as Cocaine Habit Blues but this is a misidentification. Cocaine Habit Blues is not the same song as the various Cocaine Blues that have been recorded.

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, 1998

Memphis Jug Band

no info Single (It Won't Act Right / Cocaine Habit Blues), Memphis Jug Band, 1930
no info The Jug, Jook & Washboard Bands, Various Artists, 1964
no info Pipe, Spoon, Pot And Jug, Various Artists, 1976
Memphis Jug Band, Memphis Jug Band, 1981
no info Viper Mad Blues: 16 Songs of Dope and Depravity, Various Artists, 1986
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3: 1930, Memphis Jug Band, 1990
no info Viper Mad Blues: 25 Songs of Dope & Depravity, Various Artists, 1996
Walk Right In: The Essential Recordings of Memphis Blues, Various Artists, 1997
Memphis Jug Band, Vol. 3, Memphis Jug Band, 1998
Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol. 1, Various Artists, 1998
The Memphis Jug Band Story: 1927-1934, Memphis Jug Band, 2000
The Essential Memphis Jug Band, Memphis Jug Band, 2001
The Best Of, Memphis Jug Band, 2001
When the Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock, Various Artists, 2002
When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 2: The First Time I Met the Blues, Various Artists, 2002
He's in the Jailhouse Now, Memphis Jug Band, 2003
Memphis Jug Band / Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (Box set), 2005
no info Jinkers, Jivers and Coke Fiends, Various Artists, 2005
no info Blues Image Presents...16 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920's, Vol. 4, Various Artists, 2006
no info Roots N Blues: Good Time Blues, Various Artists, 2008
The Roots of the Grateful Dead, Various Artists, 2008

Other recordings

As Cocaine Habit Blues

no info Thunder & Lightnin', Hoyt Axton. 1964
Panama Limited Jug Band, Panama Limited Jug Band, 1969
no info Blues Like Showers Of Rain, Various Artists (Panama Limited Jug Band), 1969
no info Buffalo Nickel Jug Band, Buffalo Nickel Jug Band, 1971
no info Matchbox Days, Various Artists (Panama Limited Jug Band), 1997
no info Super Great Music for Modern Lovers, Tin Men, 2003
The Badbelly Project: Hesitation Blues, Tom Hanway and Vassar Clements, 2005
no info Big Iron World, Old Crow Medicine Show, 2006
no info Guaranteed Absolutely Pure, Jake Leg Stompers, 2006
no info Medicine Show, Sideshow Tramps, 2007

As Take A Whiff On Me (or similar)

no info Memorial To Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston, 1955
no info Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2, Woody Guthrie, 1962
More Songs, Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston, 1963
Ragged But Right, The Greenbriar Boys, 1964
no info Library of Congress Recordings, Leadbelly, 1966
no info Untitled, The Byrds, 1970
no info Memoirs of a Stockbroker, Mungo Jerry, 1971
no info EP (Lady Rose / Have A Whiff On Me / Milk Cow Blues / Little Louis), Mungo Jerry, 1971
no info Hot Dogs, Stefan Grossman, 1972
no info Greatest Hits, Mungo Jerry, 1973
no info Pipe, Spoon, Pot And Jug, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 1976
no info Rough Rowdy & Blue, Merle Travis, 1981?
no info Viper Mad Blues: 16 Songs of Dope and Depravity, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 1986
no info Midnight Special, Leadbelly, 1991
no info Early Years, Mungo Jerry, 1994
no info Live, James Talley, 1994
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, Vols. 1-2, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, 1995
no info Best of Transatlantic, Stefan Grossman, 1996
All That's Folk, Various Artists (Cisco Houston), 1996
no info Viper Mad Blues: 25 Songs of Dope & Depravity, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 1996
no info Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2, Woody Guthrie, 1997
no info Field Recordings, Vol. 4: Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942), Various Artists (Blind Jesse Harris), 1998
no info The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4, Woody Guthrie, 1999
no info Bridging Leadbelly, Leadbelly, 1999
no info Greatest Hits, Mungo Jerry, 1999
no info Baby Jump: The Dawn Anthology, Mungo Jerry, 2000
no info Ramblin' Round, Woody Guthrie, 2000
no info Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 7: 1947-1949, Leadbelly, 2000
no info In the Summertime, Mungo Jerry, 2000
no info Hard Luck Blues, Woody Guthrie, 2001
no info The Collection, Woody Guthrie, 2001
Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom, 1950-1970, Various Artists (The Greenbriar Boys), 2001
no info Red Album: Live Studio Party in Hollywood, The Flying Burrito Brothers, 2002
no info Big Apple Bluegrass, The Greenbriar Boys, 2003
no info Alan Lomax Popular Songbook, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2003
no info This Land Is Your Land: A Proper Introduction to, Woody Guthrie, 2004
no info This Machine Kills Fascists, Woody Guthrie, 2004
no info Under Blackpool Lights, The White Stripes, 2004
no info Reefer Madness, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2004
no info The Very Best of, Woody Guthrie, 2005
no info Arc & Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1: 1934-1935, Leadbelly, 2005
no info Baby Jump: The Definitive Collection, Mungo Jerry, 2005
no info Some Folk, Woody Guthrie, 2006
no info Dust Bowl Balladeer: The Essential, Woody Guthrie, 2006
Definitive Gold, Woody Guthrie, 2006
There Is a Season, The Byrds, 2006
no info Important Recordings 1934-1949, Leadbelly, 2006
no info Drinkin' TNT and Smokin' Dynamite: Vintage Songs About Drugs, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2006
no info Hard Travelin' Man, Woody Guthrie, 2007
no info Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971, The Byrds, 2008
no info Roll With It: 16 Songs About Drinking, Dope and Disorderly Conduct, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2008
no info The Roots of the Van Morrison, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2008
no info The Roots of the Byrds, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2009
no info The Roots of the White Stripes, Various Artists (Leadbelly), 2009