K.C. Douglas
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Yeah; let's ask K.C. why he is good to my soul in Portland, OR. It's just good.
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Born in Sharon, Mississippi, Douglas was a rural blues stylist in the San Francisco/Oakland area of California. Douglas was influenced by Tommy Johnson,[1] whose "Canned Heat Blues" he adapted on his album, Big Road Blues. Douglas produced a blues classic when he recorded "Mercury Boogie" in 1949. The tune, which paid homage to the American automobile, was later renamed "Mercury Blues" and covered by Steve Miller, David Lindley, and Dwight Yoakam. Alan Jackson had a number one hit when he recorded the tune in 1992. Meat Loaf also covered the song as a bonus hidden track that appears on his 2003 album Couldn't Have Said It Better. Rights to the song were purchased by the Ford Motor Company, which used it for a television commercial for Ford trucks.
In the early 1960s Douglas recorded such songs as "Born in the Country," "Catfish Blues," "Fanny Lou," "Hear Me Howlin'," "K.C.'s Doctor Blues," and "Wake Up Workin' Woman" for Chris Strachwitz, mostly released on Strachwitz's Arhoolie Records and the Prestige Bluesville label.
Douglas did not reach his peak until the 1970s. He played at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1973 and 1974. He formed a quartet and became a frequent performer at coffeehouses, clubs, and bars in the East Bay/Modesto/Stockton area.
Succumbing to a fatal heart attack in Berkeley, California in October 1975, Douglas was buried in the Pleasant Green Cemetery in Sharon, Mississippi.
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