Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

This is not Rev. Gary Davis's "Cocaine Blues" but rather a completely different song recorded by Luke Jordan on August the 16th, 1927, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was the same recording date he laid down "Pick Poor Robin Clean" and "Church Bell Blues". Unlike other blues singers Luke Jordan sang in a relaxed tenor voice. His recordings feature interesting novelty songs. Jordan's "Cocaine Blues" was picked up by the white, cross-over artist Dick Justice (1906-1962). Justice's recording was made two years later, on May the 20th, 1929, but titled simply "Cocaine".

David plays this in the key of G and remains faithful to Jordan's original playing of the song.