Ry Cooder - Mercury Blues Live

Ry Cooder and David Lindley Live in 1990. Mercury blues was originally written by K.C Douglas in 1949.

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• KC Douglas
• Ry Cooder
• David Lindley
• Mercury Blues
• Coodercaster

[MrJerryWallace]

I've been playing along with my Hohner Blues Harp on both "B" and "C". Could a musician please suggest the correct key (i've got em all in my pouch).

[HoneyboyWalter]

@MrJerryWallace I'm no harmonica player, but this song is in the guitar key of D. According to what I can find, the correct harmonica key should be G.

[damnbigfish]

This is absolutely sick! The guitar interplay! Listen to them swinging against each other on the chugging intro. It's lilke the way the guitar plays against the drums on early Chuck Berry stuff. I also love how they sing together.

[HWY60Juan]

I saw them on this exact tour, back in '90...Ry's son, Jacquin was also on percussion...it was a tough call, since the great, Albert King was playing that same day...no regrets, since it's turned out to be the only time I've caught Ry, live...they did Sam the Sham's, 'Wooly Bully' in the encore, recalling a local critic crying about wasting an encore on that one...his loss, our gain...Ry never forgets to have fun & it's hard not to, with Lindley in the house...WHAT A COMBO!!!

[The58stupot]

Just wonderful stuff. Two legends together and boy does it work. Aint no substitute for sheer class boys n girls.

[andaloudog]

I'll bet I speak for a lot of people when I mention that this made my day. Happy, happy, happy.

[chuckwestband]

@HoneyboyWalter Take the key of the blues song and go up five steps (find the IV) and that's the key harp you use. So yes : D-D#-E-E#-F-G, use a G harp for the key of D. Use an A harp for E, use a C harp for G, etc...

[KennyReddwooddforest]

Ry Cooder really captures atmospheres. He has huge humor. He cultivates these atmospheres of old timer blues, country, kind hearted statements. The way he dresses, the guitars, the words he uses, all of that is pure art, full of love, carefully designed reality, ambiente, and atmosphere of a vintage time which is carrying only love in it and nothing else.

[DoowahDiatribe]

I'm so thankful for all of those Ry appreciators who post such wonderful versions of his music - keeping it alive long enough for when maybe the World will stand up and clap.

[roofermarc1]

Old boy sure can play!

[playchickenskinslide]

Fantasic ! love that sound

[CrudeDude]

Excellent!

Flatheads forever!

[oleole52]

Two of the best slide players ever.Ry must have been a teenager when he played on The Stones' Sticky Fingers and Let It Bleed albums in the late '60's.Mick and Keith knew talent when they heard it.