K.C. Douglas – Mercury Blues (1998)

1 	Mercury Blues 	2:40
2 	My Mind's Going Back To 1929 	5:10
3 	Catfish Blues 	4:00
4 	High Water Rising 	4:55
5 	Woke Up This Morning 	4:15
6 	Somebody Done Stole My Gal 	4:43
7 	Fanny Lou 	3:05
8 	I Don't Want No Woman To Love Me 	3:54
9 	Married Woman Blues 	3:33
10 	Black Cat Bone 	3:25
11 	Good Looking Women 	3:11
12 	Richard's Ride 	3:08
13 	Hear Me Howling 	3:48
14 	I'm Gonna Build Me A Web 	3:55
15 	Make Your Coffee 	4:15
16 	Night Shirt Blues 	3:40
17 	Canned Heat 	1:23
18 	Your Crying Won't Make Me Stay 	2:44
19 	Country Girl 	3:00
20 	Black Cat Bone 	2:30
21 	Good Looking Women 	3:00
22 	Fanny Lou 	2:50

K.C. Douglas - Composer, Guitar, Vocals
Richard Riggins - harmonica
Jim Marshall - Drums
Ron Thompson 	- Guitar

Spare electric blues from 1973-74 with a juke-joint feel, including a version of "Mercury Blues," tcovered 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, allmusic.com

“...the real highpoint of this album is the high-energy exchanges between Douglas' guitar and vocals and the spirited harmonica playing of Richard Riggins. It's old time country blues ‚ guitar, harmonica bass and drums ‚ that on songs like his covers of Tommy Johnson's 'Canned Heat' and 'Catfish Blues,' give testimony to the accomplishments of a very talented, and much underappreciated, blues artist.” --- Kirk Robertson, arhoolie.com

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