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K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blue (Arhoolie 1073)

Track listing:
  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

Notes

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

K.C. Douglas - vocals, guitar
Richard Riggins - hamonica
Ron Thompson - guitar
Jim Marshall - drums