Everybody's Cryin' Mercy - Mose Allison COVER

KNICK KNACK PADDY WHACK pushin’ 72(!) can still belt 'em out! Welcome to my Back Porch! It’s a series of performance videos of songs I like to sing, mostly classics from the 1960s to 80s, and a few originals. I used to crank them out twice a week, but I’ve slowed down lately. This is the 99th song I’ve posted on my channel, so see my playlists to check out the back catalog. They’re arranged mainly by different styles of music. (ALL the songs appear, in reverse order of posting date, on ‘Lars’ Back Porch songs’.) Mose Allison was a fine blues singer, an adept jazz pianist, and he wrote a lot of socially conscious lyrics—what’s not to love? His cheeky sarcasm in this song makes it irresistible. Bonnie Raitt covered it on an early record, and performed it all through her career.