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Cocaine Blues: '74-'78 [Recordings/Studio Tracks & Live at Dingwalls]
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Cocaine Blues: '74-'78 [Recordings/Studio Tracks & Live at Dingwalls]
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Cocaine Blues: '74-'78 [Recordings/Studio Tracks & Live at Dingwalls]
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Although this is billed to "
&
", in fact only four of the ten cuts were done with
. This is more properly viewed as a collection of odds and ends from
's 1970s work, none of it too exciting, but not without its merit and historical value. The first four songs were recorded live at
in London in 1978, with
, only recently out of jail, fronting
. In imperfect but listenable fidelity,
runs through
's
(into which he wittily inserts a bit from
adapting the lyrics to refer to Detroit), the nine-minute
(an interesting, autobiographical, mostly spoken account of the events leading to his mid-'70s prison term), and
Next are four run-of-the-mill hard rock studio tracks, also done in London in 1978, including covers of
and
along with a couple of originals (one co-written with
).
, presumably that
from
/
, is on piano. Finishing the disc off are two 1974 studio cuts, done in Detroit:
is another
collaboration (with lumpy, boxy bottom-end sound), and
was of course first done by
with
. This material has more heart than much 1970s hard rock, but is still almost exclusively for
completist. ~ Richie Unterberger