The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover
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The Return of Koerner, Ray and Glover is an album by Koerner, Ray & Glover
, released in 1965. It was their last recording for Elektra
and it would be seven years before the trio's next release.
Koerner appeared at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival
accompanied by Glover, one of the few times the two performed without Dave Ray.
The Return of Koerner, Ray and Glover was reissued by Red House Records
in 1999.
review, music critic Bill Milkowski called the album "A quintessential white boy blues album that helped fuel the '60s blues boom." Reviewed in Mother Jones
, the reissue was called "... driving, foot-stomping, aggressively acoustic blues that seamlessly meshes original composition with material from the great bluesmen... an album of remarkable breadth, much more than the sum of its parts."
Production notes
Koerner, Ray & Glover
Koerner, Ray & Glover is the name of a blues band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band featured Tony "Little Sun" Glover on harmonica, "Spider" John Koerner on guitar and vocals, and Dave "Snaker" Ray on guitar and vocals. Koerner, Ray & Glover were part of the early folk/blues explosion in the...
, released in 1965. It was their last recording for Elektra
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....
and it would be seven years before the trio's next release.
Koerner appeared at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival
Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival...
accompanied by Glover, one of the few times the two performed without Dave Ray.
The Return of Koerner, Ray and Glover was reissued by Red House Records
Red House Records
Red House Records is an American independent record label specializing in folk music and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.The label was originally created in 1981 by Greg Brown as a method to distribute his own music, and is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where he was living...
in 1999.
Reception
Allmusic critic Jeff Burger wrote "...this beautifully remastered 1965 collection is filled with the humor, rhythm, soulful vocals and top-notch material that made the outfit such a standout... If you like this kind of music, it's a safe bet that you'll love this album." In his JazzTimesJazzTimes
JazzTimes is a magazine that dates back to Radio Free Jazz, a publication founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin when he was operating a record store in Washington, DC. It was originally a newsletter designed to update shoppers on the latest jazz releases and provide jazz radio programmers with a means of...
review, music critic Bill Milkowski called the album "A quintessential white boy blues album that helped fuel the '60s blues boom." Reviewed in Mother Jones
Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones is an American independent news organization, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001,...
, the reissue was called "... driving, foot-stomping, aggressively acoustic blues that seamlessly meshes original composition with material from the great bluesmen... an album of remarkable breadth, much more than the sum of its parts."
Track listing
- "I Want to See My Baby" (John Koerner) – 3:05
- "Titanic" (Lead Belly) – 4:05
- "You've Got to Be Careful" (Koerner) – 2:50
- "Looky Looky Yonder" (Lead Belly, Alan LomaxAlan LomaxAlan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
, John LomaxJohn LomaxJohn Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs...
) – 1:10 - "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTellBlind Willie McTellBlind Willie McTell , was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar...
) – 3:05 - "Eugene C." (Koerner) – 2:25
- "Goin' to the Country" (Koerner) – 2:40
- "The Boys Was Shootin' It Out Last Night" (Koerner) – 2:45
- "Poor Howard" (Lead Belly, Lomax, Lomax) – 2:25
- "I Don't Want to Be Terrified" (Koerner) – 3:50
- "Don't Let You Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Do" (Tony Glover) – 3:05
- "Lonesome Road" (Traditional) – 2:35
- "England Blues" (Koerner) – 2:35
- "Packin' Truck" (Lead Belly, Lomax, Lomax) – 3:55
- "John Hardy" (Traditional) – 2:25
Personnel
- Tony "Little Sun" Glover – harmonica, vocals, liner notes
- "Spider" John Koerner – guitar, vocals
- Dave "Snaker" Ray – guitar, vocals
Production notes
- Paul Rothchild – producer
- Chris Frymire – remixing, mastering
- Eric Peltoniemi – reissue producer, design, layout design