From '' 1157 '' Label: Mushroom ‎– L37389 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Australia Released: 1980 Tracklist A1 Watching The River Flow A2 Living A Lie A3 Cocaine A4 I’d Rather Be Blind A5 Paradise A6 Watch Out For Lucy B1 Mainline Florida B2 Since You’ve Been Gone (Sweet, Sweet Baby) B3 Jive Town B4 Rescue Me B5 Never Coming Back Live at Bombay Rock, Melbourne, Oct 18, 1979 Album is dedicated to Andrew Macleish Durant. ------------------------ "Cocaine" is a song written and recorded in 1976 by JJ Cale, who was until then a little known country blues singer with a particular relaxed style. Both Cale and the song became famous when a cover version was recorded by Eric Clapton. Charts Chart (1977–1979) / Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) / 45 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) / 5 Germany (Official German Charts) / 22 Italy (FIMI) / 17 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) / 1 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) / 10 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) / 2 Eric Clapton version Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with The Who, Faces, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, produced the Clapton recording, which was released on the 1977 album Slowhand and as a single in 1980. The live version of "Cocaine", from the Just One Night album recorded in Tokyo, charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as the B-side of "Tulsa Time", which was a No. 30 hit in 1980. "Cocaine" was one of several of Cale's songs recorded by Clapton, including "After Midnight" and "Travelin' Light". AllMusic critic Richard Gilliam calls the latter "among [Clapton's] most enduringly popular hits" and notes that "even for an artist like Clapton with a huge body of high-quality work, 'Cocaine' ranks among his best." Clapton describes "Cocaine" as an anti-drug song. He has called the song "quite cleverly anti-cocaine", noting: It's no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat. So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be "anti"—which the song "Cocaine" is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought ... from a distance ... or as it goes by ... it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine. Because of its ambiguous message, Clapton did not perform the song in many of his concerts; over the years, Clapton has added the lyrics 'that dirty cocaine' in live shows to underline the anti-drug message of the song. Charts Chart (1980) / Peak position Canada (CHUM) / 2 Canada Top Singles (RPM) / 3 Netherlands (Dutch Tip 40) / 14 US Billboard Hot 100 / 30 Certifications Region / Certification / Sales/shipments Canada (Music Canada) / Gold / 75,000 Netherlands (NVPI) / Platinum / 150,000 Other cover versions A live cover by the Scottish rock band Nazareth appears on their albums The Fool Circle and 'Snaz. Guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran recorded it for his 1990 solo album Dangerous. In 2008, country singer Gretchen Wilson quoted the melody from the tag end of the chorus ("she don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie") for her song "Work Hard, Play Harder" (which also borrowed from The Black Crowes). The hard rock band Black Robot covered the song on their 2010 self-titled album. Post-grunge band Puddle of Mudd included a cover as a bonus track for their 2011 covers-album Re:(disc)overed. Old Lady Drivers released a cover of the song on their 1988 self titled debut album. In popular culture The song was featured in the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch, and in the 2005 films Lord of War and Bad News Bears.

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