Steve Miller Band - Mercury Blues

[Andy]

Mercury Blues (Live At The Pine Knob Amphitheater/1982)

Steve Miller (Vocals & Guitar)
Byron Allred (Keyboards)
Norton Buffalo (Harmonica, Percussion, Backing Vocals)
Gerald Johnson (Bass)
Kenny Lee Lewis (Guitar)
Gary Mallaber (Drums)
John Massaro (Guitar, Percussion,Keyboards, Backing Vocals)

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If I had money, tell you what I'd do
I would go downtown, buy a Mercury or two
'Cause I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road
Gonna buy me a Mercury, baby
Cruise up and down this road

You know that gal I love, I stole her from a friend
Fool got lucky, stole her back again
'Cause knew he had a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury, baby
Cruise up and down this road

Hey now mama know you look so fine
Crusin' 'round in that Mercury 49
I'm gonna buy you a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road
I'm gonna buy you a Mercury, baby
Cruise up and down this road

Gonna buy you a Mercury, baby
Cruise up and down this road
I'm gonna buy you a Mercury
Gonna buy you a Mercury
Goin' to buy you a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road

I'm gonna buy you a Mercury, baby
Goin' to buy you a Mercury
I'm gonna buy you a Mercury
Cruise up and down this road

 

[Andy]

This was from a concert at Ravinia Park about 25 miles north of Chicago..

 

[wfo]

I like the El Rayo-X version:

 

[eroseme]

I like the El Rayo-X version:

No shit. I have had this studio recording since the early 80s. Kicks Ass!

 

[Andy]

"Mercury Blues" is a song written by K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins, and first recorded by Douglas in 1948.[1] The song, originally titled "Mercury Boogie," pays homage to the American automobile, which ended production in 2010.

The song has been covered among others by the Steve Miller Band (1967, at The Monterey International Pop Festival, and 1976, on their album, Fly Like an Eagle), David Lindley (1981), the Finn Pave Maijanen (1987), Alan Jackson (1993), Meat Loaf (2003) and Dwight Yoakam (2004). Lindley's version, from his 1981 album El Rayo-X, peaked at number 34 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Meat Loaf's version appears as a hidden track at the end of his 2003 album Couldn't Have Said It Better. Dwight Yoakam's version appears on his 2002 boxed set, Reprise Please, Baby, and later on his 2004 compilation album, Dwight's Used Records. More recently, a lively, truly blues version appeared on Jackson Browne's "Love Is Strange" (2010), backed by David Lindley.

Rights to the song were purchased by the Ford Motor Company, which used it for a television commercial featuring Alan Jackson singing his version of the song with the word "Mercury" replaced by the words "Ford Truck."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Blues

 

[Andy]

Mississippi-born bluesman K.C. Douglas (1912-1975), recorded in Oakland, California during a 1952 field trip. The song, Mercury Blues, was much covered by later generations of blues performers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._C._Douglas

 

[Andy]

K.C.Douglas Trio
Downtown Records 1949 (later to become Mercury Blues)
B/W Eclipse Of The Sun

 

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Very early version of Mercury Blues from the Monterey Pop Festival 1967

 

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