Tell It To Me

Grateful Dead

No Grateful Dead recordings.

Others

Red Clay Ramblers With Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Red Clay Ramblers with Al McCanless, 1974
Tell It To Me, Ebenezer, 1975
Deadheads and Suckers, Roundtown Boys, 1978
Tennessee Strings, Tennessee Ramblers, 197?
Old Time Country Fiddle Tunes, Northern Valley Boys, 198?
Bluegrass Breakdown, Various Artists, New York City Ramblers), 1992
Great Original Recordings 1927-28, The Tenneva Ramblers, 19??

Notes

This song is usually listed on set lists and tape labels as either Cocaine Blues or Cocaine Habit Blues. But it is neither of these. The song performed by the Dead is Tell It To Me.

Cocaine Habit Blues, as recorded by the Memphis Jug Band, is the same song as Take A Whiff On Me.

For comparisons sake versions of the various songs that have in past been linked with the song performed by the Dead can be heard on the following recordings

Cocaine Habit Blues
Panama Limited Jug Band, Panama Limited Jug Band, 1969
Complete Recorded Works (Vol 3, 1930), Memphis Jug Band, 1990
Walk Right In - The Essential Recordings of Memphis Blues, Various Artists (Memphis Jug Band), 199?
The Jag, Jook and Washboard Bands, 19??
Memphis Jug Band, Memphis Jug Band, 19??

Take A Whiff On Me
Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2, Woody Guthrie, 1962
Untitled, The Byrds, 1970
Ragged But Right, The Greenbriar Boys, 1974
Midnight Special, Leadbelly, 1991
Muleskinner Blues - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2, Woody Guthrie, 1997
Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom, 1950-1970, Various Artists (The Greenbriar Boys), 2001

Cocaine Blues
Thunder 'n Lightning, Hoyt Axton, 1963
Dick Farina and Eric Von Schmidt, Richard Farina and Eric Von Schmidt, 1963
Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger, Dave Van Ronk, 196?
Lord I Wish I Could See. Vol. 2 Blues and Gospel, Reverend Gary Davis, 1971
Tom Rush, Tom Rush, 1972
Move It On Over, George Thorogood and The Destroyers, 1978
Rough, Rowdy and Blue, Merle Travis, 1986
Inside Dave Van Ronk, Dave Van Ronk, 1990
Pure Religion and Bad Company, Rev. Gary Davis, 1991
From Blues To Gospel, Rev. Gary Davis, 1992
Roadsongs, Townes Van Zandt, 1994
South Coast, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 1995
Southern Country Blues, Vol. 1, Various Artists, 1997