“Sweet Leaf” is a song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath from their third studio album Master of Reality (1971), released on July 21, 1971.[2] It is considered one of the band’s signature songs[3] and was included on their 1976 greatest hits compilation We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll.[4]
The song begins with a tape loop of guitarist Tony Iommi coughing from a joint he was smoking with bandmate Ozzy Osbourne.[5] The song’s subject is cannabis, which the band was using frequently at that time.[6] The title of the song was taken from a packet of Irish cigarettes that read “It’s the sweet leaf”.
“Sweet Leaf”, and the Master of Reality album as a whole, arguably represents the earliest example of the music that would influence the emergence of stoner rock in California in the early 1990s.[7] A compilation album, also titled Sweet Leaf, comprising covers of Black Sabbath songs by stoner rock bands, was released by Deadline Music in 2015.
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