Other Artists
Several artists have recorded "Cocaine Blues", including:
- Woody Guthrie (1944)
- Hank Thompson (1959)
- Led Zeppelin played in concert at Budokan, Japan 1971
- Hylo Brown, Lovesick and Sorrow (1963)
- Hannes Wader translated the song into German "Kokain" (1972)
- George Thorogood and The Destroyers (1978)
- Uncle Tupelo (live versions 1988-93)
- Keith Richards (on Voodoo Brew) (1993)
- Hank Williams III (1999)
- Bob Dylan (Played live in the early 1960s and throughout the mid-1990s, a version was later released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006)
- Nick Drake, (on Family Tree) (2007)
- The Loved Ones (2008)
- Merle Haggard (2011)
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