'70s Flashback: 'Peace Pipe' by B.T. Express
Brooklyn funk band B.T. Express had a gold album with "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)" in 1974. Their follow-up, "Non-Stop," features "Peace Pipe," a dance tune that doubles as a pot song.
Brooklyn funk band B.T. Express had a gold album with "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)" in 1974. Their follow-up, "Non-Stop," features "Peace Pipe," a dance tune that doubles as a pot song.
A rare Bob Marley & the Wailers song has been reissued by reggae label JAD. Written in 1968 by Marley and Mortimer Planno, "Selassie Is My Chapel" hails the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie who's beloved by Rastas.
Two summers ago, Jimmy Buffett, Paul McCartney and their wives Jane and Nancy and friends had dinner at McCartney's house. At one point, Nancy stumbled and then blurted out, "The gummies just kicked in." Buffett decided to write a song about it, featuring Macca on bass.
In the 1930s and 1940s, marijuana was popular among jazz musicians. Many wrote songs about it. One of the so-called reefer songs, "If You're a Viper," has been performed by everyone from Fats Waller to Dick Van Dyke.
Somehow country singer/comedian Jim Stafford's unlikely No. 7 hit with "Wildwood Weed" in 1974 didn't make it onto Rolling Stone's list of country-music stoner odes.
This year, the Jewish holiday Chanukah begins Nov. 28; it continues for eight days. The festival of lights is a good time to light up. Watch MC Flow's "Pot in the Latkes," Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song" and Grav Labs' cannabis menorah.