Viper Mad Blues: Songs Of Dope & Depravity

Various Artists - Blues

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Label: Mojo Records
• ASIN: B000001LYN
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #792,717 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kickin' the Gong Around [#] - Cabell "Cab" Calloway

2. Dope Head Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey

3. Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band

4. Pipe Dream Blues - Hazel Meyers

5. Smoking Reefers - Larry Adler

6. Take a Whiff on Me - Leadbelly

7. Killin' Jive - The Cats & the Fiddle

8. You'se a Viper - Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys

9. Stuff Is Here and It's Mellow - Cleo Brown

10. Reefer Man - Baron Lee,

11. Onyx Hop - Frankie Newton

12. Knockin' Myself Out - Lillian "Lil" Green,

13. Junker Blues - Champion Jack Dupree

14. Reefer Hound Blues - Curtis Jones

15. Reefer Song - Fats Waller

16. I'm Feelin' High and Happy - Gene Krupa

17. When I Get Low I Get High - Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb & His Orchestra

18. Ol' Man River (Smoke a Little Tea) - Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams

19. Blue Reefer Blues - Richard M. Jones

20. Cocaine

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and fun!, September 12, 1999

By	Brenna E. Lorenz "heptune" (State College, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This CD introduces the listener to a very nice cross-section of 1920s and 1930s jazz and blues performed by 25 different artists, including Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Leadbelly, and Gene Krupa. Some of these pieces are just plain beautiful music, like Blue Drag. Others, as one would expect, are roll-on-the-floor funny, like Fats Waller's "The Reefer Song" or Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon's version of "Willie the Weeper." (His sound effects are quite remarkable.) Some of these pieces seem to be unavailable on any other CD, like "Killin' Jive" by the Cats and the Fiddle. They performed this song in the movie, The Duke is Tops, but no CD of their material has yet been released. This is one of my favorite CDs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, tracks available elsewhere, September 29, 2006

By	Ian Mccullough "bookninja" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a terrific album and highly recommended. However, the individual tracks are all available legally through other channels. Try "Dope & Glory" or "Flashbacks: Drug Songs, high & low 1917-1944" if this type of music appeals to you. Can't beat the cover art though.

3.0 out of 5 stars bait and switch! - sort of..., June 11, 2009

By	R. Schock - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

i ordered this album a couple of days ago and it arrived with today's mail. kudos (and one star!) for fast delivery!

however....the original vendor's listing for this album includes the cover as shown - which i was expecting - NOT some rehashed faux "psychedellic" cover so minus two and a half stars for a very misleading "come on" foto
the album itself is great - but as i was hoping to cop an ORIGINAL version and not this (possibly bootlegged?) version i'm only slightly satisfied.

caveat emptor, baby, caveat emptor