Mercury Blues transcription?

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 6 Jan 2013 6:29 am

Anyone know of a good transcription or tab of David Lindley's Mercury Blues.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 6 Jan 2013 10:24 am

Bill,
I think you mean "David Lindley's VERSION OF Mercury Blues."

The song goes way back. The original;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9xQ7oUwbs

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 6 Jan 2013 10:31 am

And here's a fun live version with Ry;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpJYvLsBco

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 6 Jan 2013 10:48 am

If you can find a copy of the June 2000 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine, they have it tabbed out there.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 6 Jan 2013 12:02 pm

Ah...Thanks Brad. Too bad there isn't a link to it.

Eric Dunst · Post by **Eric Dunst** » 6 Jan 2013 12:09 pm

Bill, I have the issue that Brad mentioned, and scanned the Tab for you. I'd post it here if I could figure out how (or wasn't too lazy to). check you're PM.

Eric Dahlhoff · Post by **Eric Dahlhoff** » 8 Jan 2013 5:28 pm

I'd sure love to get a copy of that tab. I'll post it here if you would email it to me.

Eric Dunst · Post by **Eric Dunst** » 8 Jan 2013 6:44 pm

eric, check your email.

Randy Reeves · Post by **Randy Reeves** » 9 Jan 2013 8:27 am

he plays the lick in F. I think he has a lap steel tuned to that.
I sure would appreciate a copy of what you have.
please, please, please.

Eric Dahlhoff · Post by **Eric Dahlhoff** » 9 Jan 2013 4:17 pm

I love this song. Thanks for sending it.

Janet Peters · Post by **Janet Peters** » 18 Jan 2016 10:01 am

I heard this at SiriusXM Deep Tracks this morning on Tom Petty's radio program. I'm glad the tablature is located here so I don't have to slog through boxes of Acoustic Guitar mag. Thanks for the reference, Brad!

By the way, the tab is in the key of D. David Lindley took one of his DADGAD tuned instruments and tuned one string down a half step to DADF#AD as noted

I love this song too...

Jamie Mitchell · Post by **Jamie Mitchell** » 18 Jan 2016 11:09 am

Bill McCloskey wrote:Anyone know of a good transcription or tab of David Lindley's Mercury Blues.

El Rayo X version?

Stephen Abruzzo · Post by **Stephen Abruzzo** » 18 Jan 2016 11:27 am

El Rayo-X was an album David Lindley put out with Mercury Blues on it IIRC.....also the name of his band too.

My personal favorite version Lindley did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbbgSKUZB4

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jan 2016 1:20 pm

i thought it was an alan jackson song!?

edited to add emoticons.

Bud Angelotti · Post by **Bud Angelotti** » 18 Jan 2016 1:27 pm

Here ya go >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTfCITzISM

Couldn't help it.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 18 Jan 2016 2:08 pm

hey bud, good info.
so he recorded that in oakland in '52.
i was born in oakland in'48 and grew up in my dad's '47 ford sedan...looked alot like that merc.

Bud Angelotti · Post by **Bud Angelotti** » 18 Jan 2016 2:16 pm

KC probably "borrowed" it as well.
Lotta dough has been made with that song.
Just realized someone earlier in the thread put up an even earlier version of this song.

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