T.C. Mirc

I've been married 20 years. I've got a couple of friends who haven't been married 20 years, if you know what I mean, and they keep falling into the same old traps. That's what this song's about. 

In 2005 I spent time in a little community in southeast Louisiana called Isle Des Jean Charles. And just this year, 2025, I tried to get back there. But I couldn't. And you can't, and no one can. Because in 20 years the water's risen up over that community, flooded it out, and cut it off from the mainland. It got me to thinking. The water's rising here in America today, and I'm not just talking about the wet stuff...

This is what I love about the blues. Sometimes it's about singing about the pain of human despair and getting that pain heart-to-heart to the audience. But other times it's about drinking some Uncle Nearest on a rowdy night ...at a Mississippi juke joint!

In 2025 America we're suffering from alot of things, one of those is addiction. We're addicted to drugs, we're addicted to alcohol, but there's something else that's hurting us just the same if not worse than those other things. This song is a personal story of my struggle with that very thing...

Let's geaux down to the swamp, down to Louisiana! This upbeat funk-inspired blues boogie hits upon why there's no place on Earth like Louisana, from the people to the music, to the wild stories that you have to see to believe! Let's geaux!

I was in Louisiana twenty years ago, and one thing I'll always remember was in the days before Hurricane Katrina, there were busses lined up and down Bourbon Street and in the French Quarter evacuating the people there. Evacuation calls came strong. But on the east side and south of the river, where days later you'd see those pictures of devastation, there were no busses, and the evacuation calls weren't as strong. I put myself in the shoes of one of the people there, knowing that the most powerful Hurricane in American history was coming, and no one was coming to help. 

Short clip of T.C. playing overhand slide guitar in drop D tuning, to introduce Terraplane Blues.

October 6, 2024 - DURHAM, North Carolina, Blue Note Cafe

T.C. performed a set blending two originals with a "100 year tour of blues music from the Delta to today (in 20 minutes)". The mix of overhand slide, deep cuts from 1925 with boogie from the 1970s ended up with T.C. as the Triangle Blues Society's runner up for the 2024 Blues Challenge.

The August 2025 show, live (audio only direct) from the Old North state!