Poll: "Cocaine" by Jackson Browne or Eric Clapton?

[zimie]

Eric Clapton

 

[BigSwede]

I am not much of a Clapton fan,but I heard a great live version of Cocaine several years ago.

 

[Neutron66]

Jackson Browne represents "lite rock" at its worst.

While not a huge fan of Clapton, he at least can rock pretty hard when he wants.

 

[Member442]

I love them both. The are both great on totally different levels. Though if you asked me the one I'd probably listen to more I'd have to say Eric's.

 

[rad2927]

I enjoy both versions and have heard the Browne version a lot more often but I heard Clapton perform it live and that's the version for me-part of a REALLY great show.

 

[Andrew39]

i am going with Jackson Browne on this one, the version from his Running On Empty album is much better.
Clapton's song is more upbeat but Browne's tells a better story

 

[LukeEl]

I think both are overrated, but I like Clapton's version, and that is saying alot.

 

[mrtrebus]

Slowhand's

 

[Skyraider22]

Clapton

 

[gmase]

This post was 12 years ahead of its time.

Clapton by a wide margin.

 

[Steve-FreeOnes]

You know I love a good necro bump but I draw the line when it's for Eric Clapton purposes.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

He's going to be in Columbus Oh., the closest venue, to me. I have heard that Jimmy Vaughn is on the bill too.

 

[xfire]

You know I love a good necro bump but I draw the line when it's for Eric Clapton purposes.

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[John_8581]

Neither. Just say no to drugs.

To quote Bob Dylan from "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Keep a clean nose
Watch the Plain Clothes
You don't need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows

"Cocaine" by J.J. Cale -- as performed by Eric Clapton -- is way above this Jackson Browne ditty. (Jackson Browne's version was written by the Reverend Gary Davis (with additional lyrics by Jackson Browne and by Glenn Frey. Look up the songwriter credits on the liner notes and on the record itself for the Running On Empty album) Now if Ry Cooder was on Jackson Browne's Running On Empty album then it would be a different story. But he's not. So that ends this argument.

"Cocaine" was just one J.J. Cale song done by Eric Clapton. He's also performed "After Midnight" and "Call Me the Breeze" (the same song that Lynyrd Skynyrd did) live in concert.

In this video, sitting on J.J. Cale's right and playing slide guitar is Derek Trucks. He is the nephew of Butch Trucks, one of the drummers in the Allman Brothers Band. Jai Johanny Johanson is the other drummer in that band.

The best song about drug use is "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel. That's heroin by the way in case you just didn't know.

Honorable mention to John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" and the Ramones' classic, "I Wanna Be Sedated."

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Glenn Frey, and Jackson Browne lived in the same building for a time, and I have seen video of Frey crediting Browne for teaching him to write music....basically by just paying attention to Browne's methods, A lot of people have no clue, that one of the Eagles biggest hits (Take It Easy), was a Jackson Browne song, he couldn't finish, so he enlisted Frey to help. In fact, he had a lot to do with the Desperado album, my favorite Eagles album, and he is one of the cowboys on the cover of the album. Another guy, J.D. Souther, I think his name is, was in a good western, called "Purgatory", with Eric Roberts, and Sam Shepard.

I believe I got that info from the Eagles documentary, "East Of Eden".