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Cars make great musical metaphors, and theyve inspired some famous blues songs like Cadillac Boogie, Maybelline and Mustang Sally. K.C. Douglas came out with Mercury Boogie in 1949, a song that would go on to be a widely covered blues standard, known as Mercury Blues. Ford purchased the rights to the song for advertising (Crazy Bout a Ford Truck), and it was a #2 hit for country singer Alan Jackson in 1993. K.C. Douglas was born in Mississippi and as a young man in the 1930s performed with the influential bluesman Tommy Johnson. After relocating to the Bay Area, Douglas continued to record and perform into his 70s. Steve Miller began his career with an interest in blues. After playing in the Chicago blues scene in the mid 60s, he headed to San Francisco, eventually putting his own group together and having considerable success in the commercial music world. Miller released Mercury Blues on his album Fly Like an Eagle , which was called the best of album of 1976 by Rolling Stone