Mercurial Son review by Kevin Johnson in Delmark's Rhythm & News

Very influential on this recording were producers,
world renowned blues scholars, Steve Cushing
(Blues Before Sunrise blues radio host and vastly
underrated drummer) and Scott Dirks (author of Little
Walter bio among others, and fantastic harp player.)
Steve Cushing wrote many of these wildly haunting
and menacing originals and provided the “complex,
yet primal sounding rhythms,” on drums providing
somewhat of an African, Bo Diddley beat along with
the late Chicago bass legend, Willie Black, and with
Lurrie’s intertwining lead and rhythm dark deep funk
blues guitar.
This is from the original liners from well respected
local writer/blues historian/bassist, Justin O’Brien
“The music of Mercurial Son is stream of Lurrie’s consciousness. It is wild. It is rudimentary in its primordial groove. It is celebratory. It is dark and portentous.
It is brilliant. It is playful and even hilarious. It can be
nearly incoherent and it can be raunchy. And it can
also be lucid and beautiful. It’s frightening and it’s
thrilling. It’s strange and it’s wonderful.” I agree!
—KEVIN JOHNSON

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