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This Cocaine Blues is based on theJohn Martyn version of this very old blues song which was said to have come out of the roaring 20s. There have been literally thousands of arrangements of this tune and the original composer is not known. Still very relevant almost 100 years later...

Cocaine Blues  arrangement  Xconduo

Goin' to Brownsville is a traditional blues written by no one in particular over a century and a half ago. Versions of this song are as numerous as the moon and the stars. versions have been performed by a range of artists...starting from black American  buskers in the ol' city of New Orleans and later by the great  Robert Johnston, Rory Block, Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton, Big Mamma Thornton and JoAnne Kelly...

Goin' to Brownsville   (arranged by JJ Harper and Eugene Donnini)

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This is not my composition. It was given to me by a poet friend to arrange for the guitar. I think it is a beautiful song and I hope I can do it justice. As you can hear, the best songwriters are not necessarily good musicians. Dylan for example. But he had the music and a poet's soul.

Eugene Alexander Donnini

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