Cocaine Habit Blues

After listening to this song for the first time, I wanted to draw something that represented how a person might feel on the effects of cocaine, and why it is so powerful that artists such as Lead Belly would bother to sing about it with such emotion. In other variations of the song such as Johnny Cash's, the lyrics go even darker and narrate how cocaine had influenced a young man to murder a woman. Drugs and women seem to go together in many of these songs, it makes me wonder if musicians back then face a similar problem to many famous musicians and celebrities today with drug problems. Domestic abuse is obviously extremely frowned upon in todays society, but probably a much more common issue when these songs were popular. Feelings of anger and regret are a common theme throughout, along with addiction and lack of self-restraint.