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Thread #54836   Message #1116744
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Ackerbauer
16-Feb-04 - 01:29 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cocaine Blues
Subject: RE: Origins: Cocaine blues
I love the version Dylan does on the Gaslight Tapes bootlegs. At one point, he changes the verse "Headed up Beale Street, turning on Main, looking for a man who sells cocaine" to "Headed up Main Street, turning on Beale, looking for a man who's called Lucille."

The version I play is a hybrid of versions by Stefan Grossman and Dave Van Ronk, and I think they both learned it from Rev. Gary Davis.

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