Title: One Room Country Shack & Other Struggling Blues Artist: Mercy Dee Walton Label: Jasmine Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 604988319729 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2022-11-11 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
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 Chiefly 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 Fine Comeback Album, "Mercy Dee", For Arhoolie.
Tracks: 1.1 Baba-Du-Lay Fever (G. I. Fever) 1.2 Lonesome Cabin Blues 1.3 Evil and Hanky 1.4 Homely Baby 1.5 Bird Brain Baby 1.6 Crepe on Your Door 1.7 Straight and Narrow 1.8 Old Fashioned Ways 1.9 Pay Off (Anything in the World) 1.10 Trailing My Baby 1.11 Romp ; Stomp Blues 1.12 Oh, Oh, Please 1.13 Come Back Maybellene 1.14 Have You Ever (Alternate Take) 1.15 Stubborn Woman 1.16 One Room Country Shack 1.17 My Woman Knows the Score 1.18 Misery Blues 1.19 The Great Mistake 1.20 Strugglin' with Blues 1.21 Rent Man Blues 1.22 Fall Guy 1.23 The Drifter 1.24 Winter Blues 1.25 Get to Gettin' 1.26 Dark Muddy Bottom 1.27 My Woman and the Devil 1.28 Problem Child
