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Mercury Blues

Artist.: K.C. Douglas
Album: Mercury Blues
Genre: Blues
Source.: CD
Year.: 1998
Ripper.: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality: Lossless, (avg. compression: 55 %)
Channels.: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Ripped by: e313 on 12/10/2011
Posted by: e313 on 2/26/2012
Included.: NFO, PLS, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers.: Front
Tracklisting

1. Mercury Blues - 2:36
2. My Mind's Going Back to 1929 - 5:15
3. Catfish Blues - 4:20
4. High Water Rising - 4:59
5. Woke up This Morning - 3:50
6. Somebody Done Stole My Gal - 4:44
7. Fanny Lou - 3:03
8. I Don't Want No Woman to Love Me - 3:55
9. Married Woman Blues - 3:35
10. Black Cat Bone - 3:27
11. Good Looking Women - 3:11
12. Richard's Ride - 3:09
13. Hear Me Howling - 3:50
14. I'm Gonna Build Me a Web - 3:53
15. Make Your Coffee - 2:37
16. Night Shirt Blues - 2:05
17. Canned Heat - 1:22
18. Your Crying Won't Make Me Stay - 2:44
19. Country Girl - 3:04
20. Black Cat Bone - 2:37
21. Good Looking Women - 3:07
22. Fanny Lou - 2:51

Playing Time.: 01:14:25
Total Size.: 420.76 MB


Recorded between 1960 and 1974. Originally released on Arhoolie (1073).

Spare electric blues from 1973-74 with a juke-joint feel, including a version of "Mercury Blues," covered by Steve Miller and Alan Jackson. Originally released on LP on Arhoolie 1073, the CD reissue adds a dozen previously unissued bonus cuts, taken from sessions in 1960, 1963, 1973, and 1974. It's competent but unexceptional country-blues with added electricity and a rhythm section, and pretty similar-sounding most of the way through. "I'm Gonna Build Me a Web," the 1963 track, stands out here as the piano and sax add some needed texture; the three 1960 songs are solo acoustic performances. ~ Richie Unterberger



Personnel

vocals, guitar
Richard Riggins - hamonica
Ron Thompson - guitar
Jim Marshall - drums


Despite originally hailing from the Mississippi-Tennessee border just 50 miles from Memphis, K.C. Douglas was to become one of the last great rural blues guitarists of the post-war West Coast blues scene. His principal claim to fame concerns having written and recorded the renowned "Mercury Blues", a real gutbucket blues tune subsequently covered by artists as disparate as the Steve Miller Band, Alan Jackson (a no. 1 country hit in 1992), Canned Heat, Norton Buffalo and David Lindley. But the K.C. Douglas story runs a shade deeper than that. Born into a strict Baptist family, and baptised with just the initials "K.C.", Douglas grew up on a Mississippi farm. His father was a minister with a deep distrust of the blues and all that it represented. But the eastern Mississippi was blues territory "par excellence", and almost inevitably the young Douglas developed a deep curiosity for the recordings of Son House, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Tommy McClennan. He was mesmerised by one man in particular: the legendary Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson.


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