Mercy Dee Walton - One Room Country Shack and Other Struggling Blues

JASMINE RECORDS

£10.49

Cat. no: JASMCD3197
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988319729
Release Date: 02 Dec 2022
Genre: Blues

Mercy Dee Walton was a pianist, singer and songwriter, whose oeuvre encompassed blues, jump blues and R&B, invariably bewailing the unattractiveness of rural life

Invariably billed on record as just Mercy Dee, he remains chiefy important for his US Top 10 R&B hits 'Lonesome Cabin Blues (Log Cabin Blues)' and 'One Room Country Shack'. The latter song became established as a Blues standard, and was later closely associated with Mose Allison.

A powerful body of work, this compilation is a selection of popular sides and rarities, recorded between 1949-55, variously for Spire, Imperial, Colony, Rhythm, Flair, and Specialty.

His 1955 Flair release 'Come Back Maybellene', an answer disc to Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene', was a big record among specialist Rock & Roll collectors.

He sadly died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1962, just a year after recording a fne comeback album, "Mercy Dee", for Arhoolie.

Tracks: Baba- Du- Lay Fever (G. I. Fever) / Lonesome Cabin Blues / Evil And Hanky / Homely Baby / Bird Brain Baby / Crepe On Your Door / Straight And Narrow / Old Fashioned Ways / Pay Off (Anything In The World) / Trailing My Baby / Romp & Stomp Blues / Oh, Oh, Please / Come Back Maybellene / Have You Ever (Alternate Take) / Stubborn Woman / One Room Country Shack / My Woman Knows The Score / Misery Blues / The Great Mistake / Strugglin’ With Blues / Rent Man Blues / Fall Guy / The Drifter / Winter Blues / Get To Gettin’ / Dark Muddy Bottom / My Woman And The Devil / Problem Child