Driving guitar, strong words, good rhythms, big ideas, intimate feelings, confusing production, extreme, provocative... its own animal, uncaged, loose, at large... If I'm at your throat, please don't misunderstand me; I'm just trying to reach your heart.

Again Again: the quietest, a simple delicate guitar-gilded tearjerker, just too sad 
Love’s A Lot To Ask : spooky and true, love is like a Chinese box or finger trap 
What Would I Do If I Were Alive?: playful, rapturous positivity I aspire to embody 
She Made Me: witty love ditty for my little pretty, like 1930 or maybe 19-fitty 
Evolution’s Itch: taking down human pretensions w/ wicked guitar, moving beat 
Mama Hold You : sources our needs and hopes and lays a nasty slow burn down 
Sympathy: shows the painfully earnest clown I am. Guitar twinkles, We mean it.
Run Johnny Run: merciless tale, sadly familiar, with a strong riff to drive it home 
Circle Jerk in a Butcher Shop: from grind to bounce, no redemption, gotta dance
The Water’s Gonna Win This One: easy flowing beat, a cold splash of the future 
Believe in Love: the courting case I plead in vain, the desperation is palpable 
One Other: droning, meditative, noisy; a drop's ecstasy before rejoining the sea.

Love's A Lot To Ask

My most listenable album, because my voice and lyrics are blessedly absent! Simply sweet tunes interpreted and improvised on guitar over keyboard, bass, harmonica and beats.  Some I recorded 20 years ago, but the mood and melodies still touch me and I hope they will you. My instruments let me mouth truths more directly than words allow. My instruments are here for soothing, here to satisfy.

Instruments For Soothing

Again Again

What Would I Do If I Were Alive?

She Made Me

Evolution's Itch

Mama Hold You

Sympathy

Run Johnny Run

Circle Jerk In A Butcher Shop

The Water's Gonna Win This One

Believe In Love

One Other

Hard/Sweet (Sweet Covers)

Wallflower (Dylan)

Setting the Woods on Fire (Williams)

Ball And Chain

All I've Gotta Do (instr) (Lennon)

Again Again (instr) (Zucker)

Wild Mountain Thyme (instr) (Irish/Scottish trad)

Rain (instr) (Lennon)

Santa Fe (instr) (Dylan)

Old Cape Cod (instr) (Rothrock/Yakus/Jeffery)

Mama, You've Been On My Mind (instr) (Dylan)

Autumn Leaves (Kosma/Prevert)

Man Of Constant Sorrow (American Trad)

She Belongs To Me (Dylan)

Mood Medley (Hess-Zucker)

Oughtabewe (Hess - Zucker)

The Hole Stretched Out

A Very Angry Coat

What Is Up Is Not Down

Descends Together

The Time Comes For More Noise

This Does Not Make Music

No Sound Is An Occasion

In The Picking Of A Pin

A White Shadow Is A Mountain, A Station Is A Station

There Is So Much Fruit

Cloudcherrychorus Of All Bright Birds

I AM MERCURY
Hard to pin down
Fun to play with
Solid and liquid
Hot and cold
Light and dark
Toxic and divinatory
Quicksilver and Cinnabar
First Matter and Minamata
Mad as a hatter and Messenger of gods
Mopsy to mom
Markele to dad
My brother to bro
Moose to Unc Po
Mr. Zucker to you

Mercury Zucker

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