Special session: the first-ever "chronic-ology," tracing the history of reefer songs...
-HOUR ONE-
STUFF SMITH and his ONYX CLUB BOYS – You’se a Viper (1936 78RPM single B-side)
RAY CHARLES – Let’s Go Get Stoned (1966 Crying Time)
BOB DYLAN – Rainy Day Women #12 &35 (1966 Blonde on Blonde)
BEATLES – Magical Mystery Tour (1967 Magical Mystery Tour)
STEPPENWOLF – Don’t Step On the Grass, Sam (1968 the Second)
BREWER & SHIPLEY – One Toke Over the Line (1970 Tarkio)
BLACK SABBATH – Sweet Leaf
(1971 Master of Reality)
STEVE MILLER BAND – the Joker (1973 the Joker)
PETER TOSH – Legalize It
(1975 Legalize It)
BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS – Kaya (1978 Kaya)
BLACK UHURU – Sensemilla
(1980 Sinsemilla)
MIGHTY DIAMONDS – Pass the Kouchie (1982 Changes)
-HOUR TWO-
the TOYES – Smoke Two Joints
(1983 the Toyes)
TONE LŌC – Cheeba Cheeba
(1989 Lōc-ed After Dark)
CYPRESS HILL – Hits from the Bong (1993 Black Sunday)
TOM PETTY & the HEARTBREAKERS – Mary Jane’s last
Dance (1993 Greatest Hits)
TOM PETTY – You Don’t Know How It Feels (1994 Wildflowers)
SNOOP DOGGY DOGG – Gin and Juice (1993 Doggystyle)
BEN HARPER – Burn One Down
(1995 Fight for Your Mind)
SPEARHEAD – Ganja Babe
(1997 Chocolate Supa Highway)
AFROMAN – Because I Got High
(2001 Because I Got High)
TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND – Me, I Get High on Reefer (2010 !Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)
WILLIE NELSON & MERLE HAGGARD w/ JAMEY JOHSNON – It’s
All Going to Pot (2015 Django &
Jimmie)
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