 'Spider' John Koerner  Tony 'Little Sun' GloverDave 'Snaker' Ray Koerner, Ray & Glover discography |
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"One doing almost perfect incarnations of Leadbelly 12-string guitar, another writing his own songs in an uneven bar style that blew your mind, and one guy on the moon who played the strangest harmonica you ever heard."
Paul Rothchild (Elektra Records) reminiscing about first impressions in "Follow The Music" |
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| 1 | 06/63 | Koerner, Ray & Glover: Blues, Rags and Hollers - Linin' Track - Ramblin' Blues - It's All Right - Hangman - Ted Mack Rag °° - Down To Louisiana - Creepy John - Bugger Burns - Sun's Wail - Dust My Broom °° @ youtube - One Kind Favor - Go Down Ol' Hanna - Good Time Charlie - Banjo Thing - Stop That Thing - Too Bad °° - Snaker's Here - Low Down Rounder - Jimmy Bell - Mumblin' Word °° rec. [in stereo!] March 24, 1963 at the Woman's Club, Milwaukee, Wisconson
whole album has surface noise because of the compressed grooves (10 tracks per side)! Only 300 pressed on translucent red vinyl!
notes by Paul Nelson Red House RHR 76 (1995) Tartare CD 8020 (2010) |
| 2 | 11/1963 | Koerner, Ray & Glover: Blues, Rags and Hollers - Linin' Track @ youtube - Ramblin' Blues @ youtube - It's All Right @ youtube - Hangman @ youtube - Down To Louisiana @ youtube - Creepy John @ youtube - Bugger Burns @ youtube - Sun's Wail @ youtube - One Kind Favor @ youtube - Go Down Ol' Hanna @ youtube - Good Time Charlie @ youtube - Banjo Thing @ youtube - Stop That Thing @ youtube - Snaker's Here @ youtube - Low Down Rounder @ youtube - Jimmy Bell @ youtube These reissues are missing four tunes from the original Audiophile release
= Red House RHR CD 76 (US 1995) |
| 3 | 1/1964 | The Folk Box Koerner, Ray & Glover - Linin' Track Dave Ray - Slappin' On My Black Cat Bone
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| 4 | 3/1964 | the BLUES project A compendium of the very best on the urban blues scene  @ youtube (full album)- Fixin' To Die (Dave Ray) - Blow Whistle Blow (Eric von Schmidt) - My Little Woman (John Koerner) - Ginger Man (Geoff Muldaur) - Bad Dream Blues (Dave van Ronk) @ youtube - Winding Boy (Ian Buchanan) @ youtube - I'm Troubled (Danny Kalb) @ youtube - France Blues (Mark Spoelstra) - Don't You Leave Me Here (Dave van Ronk) @ youtube - Devil Got My Woman (Geoff Muldaur) - Southbound Train (John Koerner) - Downtown Blues (Geoff Muldaur) - Leavin' Here Blues (Dave Ray) - Hello Baby Blues (Danny Kalb) @ youtube - She's Gone (Mark Spoelstra) - Slappin' On My Black Cat Bone (Dave Ray) assisting musicians: Tony Glover, Fritz Richmond, John B. Sebastian, Doug Pomeroy, Bob Landy [Bob Dylan]; prod. by Jac Holzman & Paul A. Rothchild cover artwork by Eric Von Schmidt
back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson (short) back cover notes plus foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson back cover notes plus 5-pp. foldout booklet by Paul Nelson (abridged) back cover notes by Paul Nelson (no booklet) 5 CD set |
| 5 | 6/1964 | "Spider" John Koerner, Dave "Snaker" Ray & Tony "Little Sun" Glover: Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers - Black Dog - Whomp Bom - Black Betty - Honey Bee - Crazy Fool - Keep Your Hands Off Her - Duncan And Brady - Fine Soft Land - Red Cross Store - Lady Day - Freeze To Me, Mama - Ted Mack Rag - Fannin Street - Love Bug - Can't Get My Rest At Night - What's The Matter With The Mill
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| 6 | 1/1965 | Dave Ray: Snaker's Here - Julie Ann Johnson (Trad.) - Go My Bail (Ray) - Rock Me (Waters) * - Bull Frog Blues (Harris) - Old Country Rock (Moore) - Ramblin' On My Mind (Johnson) * - Broke Down Engine (McTell) - Blind Lemon (Leadbelly) - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Johnson) * - Saddle Up My Pony (Williams) - Brownsville Blues (Memphis Willie B.) * - Becky Dean (Leadbelly) - Yellow Woman's Door Blues (Trad.) - Killing Me By Degrees (Ray) - 'Fore Day Worry Blues (Leadbelly) - Rising Sun Blues - Need My Help Someday (Ray) * * Tony Glover on mouth harp
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| 7 | 5/1965 | John Koerner: Spider Blues - Good Luck Child * - I Want To Be Your Partner - Nice Legs - Spider Blues * @ youtube - Corrina - Shortnin' Bread - Ramblin' And Tumblin' - Delia Holmes - Need A Woman - I Want To Do Something - Baby, Don't Come Back - Hal C. Blake - Things Ain't Right * - Rent Party Rag John Koerner, voc, 7-str g, kazoo, hca; * Tony Glover, hca cover photo by Dave Gahr
notes by Paul Nelson |
| 8 | 5/1965 | Newport Folk Festival 1964 Evening Concerts Vol. 3 Doc Watson (with Merle Watson & Arnold Watson) - Blueridge Mountain Blues - Blackberry Blossom - Going Down This Road Feeling Bad Fred McDowell (with the Georgia Sea Island Singers) - Louise Hedy West - 500 Miles - Anger In The Land Swan Silvertones - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Feed Me, Jesus Tom Paxton - Bottle Of Wine - That Was The Last Thing On My Mind Koerner, Ray & Glover @ youtube - Blackjack Davy - What's The Matter With The Mill Judy Roderick - He Was A Friend Of Mine @ youtube - Mr. Brown To You @ youtube - Blues On My Ceiling (with John Hammond, hca) @ youtube The Cajun Band - Bosco Stomp
rec. July 23-26, 1964 live at the Newport Folk Festival
notes by Stacey Williams notes by Stacey Williams notes by Stacey Williams
reel-to-reel tape triple album Newport Folk Festival discography |
| 9 | 1/1967 | The Newport Folk Festival 1965 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Mellow Down Easy The Lilly Brothers (with Tex Logan & Don Stover) - Black Mountain Rag Son House - Sundown Blues Ishangi Dance Troupe - Washwoman Moving Star Hall Singers - Been In The Storm So Long Eric Von Schmidt (with Fritz Richmond, Mel Lyman, Geoff Muldaur & Maria d'Amato) - My Love Comes Rolling Down Bill Keith & Jim Rooney - Banjo Medley John Koerner (with Tony Glover, hca) - Duncan And Brady Maria d'Amato (with Geoff Muldaur, g) - Trick Ain't Walkin' No More Son House - Death Letter Blues Chambers Brothers - Bottle Music - I Got It Mel Lyman, hca - Rock Of Ages  rec. July 24/25, 1965 in Newport, RI
= Vanguard VGX 9225 (US 1967) (Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, ¼", 4-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel) = Vanguard VAN M 89225 (US 1967) (8-Track Cartridge stereo) = Vanguard KICP-2122 (Jp 1991) Newport Folk Festival discography |
| 10 | 10/1965 | the return of Koerner, Ray & Glover - I Want To See My Baby # [] - Titanic * - You've Got To Be Careful # - Looky, Looky Yonder * - Statesboro Blues * - Eugene C. # [] - Goin' To The Country # - The Boys Was Shootin' It Out Last Night # * [] - Poor Howard * - I Don't Want To Be Terrified # - Don't Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Do [] - Lonesome Road * - England Blues # [] - Packin' Trunk # [] - John Hardy # * # John Koerner, voc, 7str g; * Dave Ray, voc, 12str g; [] Tony Glover, voc, hca; prod. by Jac Holzman and Paul Rothchild with the assistance of Paul Nelson; cover photo by Paul Nelson
notes by Paul Nelson |
| 11 | 11/1965 | Folksong '65 Elektra 15th Anniversary Commemorative Album Tom Rush - Long John (3:51) Judy Collins - So Early, Early In The Morning (3:07) Koerner, Ray & Glover - Linin' Track (2:15) Hamilton Camp - Girl Of The North Country (2:28) Dick Rosmini - 900 Miles (2:37) Tom Paxton - The Last Thing On My Mind (3:05) Paul Butterfield Band - Born In Chicago (3:13) @ youtube Kathy & Carol - Fair Beauty Bright (2:32) Mark Spoelstra - White Winged Dove (4:04) Fred Neil - Blues On The Ceiling (2:22) Bruce Murdoch - Rompin' Rovin' Days (2:15) Phil Ochs - Power And The Glory (2:15)
notes by Stefan E. Powers |
| 12 | 12/1965 | Tony Glover: Blues Harp (Harp Instruction)
= Smithsonian/Folkways CRB-9
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| 13 | 1966 45 rpm | "Spider" John Koerner - Won't You Give Me Some Love - Don't Stop # rec. 1966 in New York City; 'Spider' John Koerner, voc, g, hca; Al Kooper, g; Felix Pappalardi, b; Roy Blumenfeld, dr; # Tony Glover, hca
nero's neptune NN025 |
| 14 | 1/1967 | Dave Ray: fine soft land - Alabama Woman (Carr) - Young Man (Allison) - Crying Shame (Ray) - Got To Live (Ray) - West Egg Rag (Ray) - How You Want Your Rolling Done (Estes) - Highway 51 - Tribute (Miller-Ray) - Baby Please Don't Go (Trad., arr. Ray) - Kid Man Blues (Estes) - Death Valley Blues (Crudup) - If I Get Lucky (Ray) - Married Woman Blues (Ray) - Look Over Yonders Wall (Clark) - You Can't Go (Ray) - Born To Surrender (Ray)
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| 15 | 12/1967 | Willie Murphy & 'Spider' John Koerner: Running, Jumping, Standing Still - Red Palace (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube (live footage) - I Ain't Blue (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Bill & Annie (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Old Brown Dog (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Running, Jumping, Standing Still (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Sidestep (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Magazine Lady (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Friends And Lovers (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Sometimes I Can't Help Myself (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Good Night (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube - Some Sweet Nancy (Koerner/Murphy) @ youtube
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| 15a | 1969 | "SPIDER" JOHN KOERNER & WILLIE MURPHY Elektra EKSN-450637 - Friends And Lovers @ youtube - Magazine Lady @ youtube Elektra EKM-45654 - Magazine Lady - Friends And Lovers
7 inch 45 rpm
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| 16 | 1967 | 'Spider' John Koerner & Willie Murphy - A Conversation of Life Styles & Music (interview)
one-sided 7 inch 45 rpm |
| 17 | 1/1968 | Bamboo - Girl Of The Seasons (Dave Ray) - 3:35 - Treehouse (Dave Ray) - 3:27 - Blak Beri Cheri Blooz (Daniel Lee Hall) - 3:45 - The Virgin Albatross (Dave Ray) - 2:40 - That's My Life (Dave Ray) - 3:07 - August Man (Dave Ray) - 2:32 - The Odessey of Thaddeus Baxter (Will Donicht) - 3:20 - 30 Seconds To Nashville (Dave Ray) - 0:30 - Anything But Love (Will Donicht) - 1:55 - Sok Me Toot Tru Luv (Daniel Lee Hall) - 3:35 - Lonely Homes (Dave Ray) - 2:49 - Keep What Makes You Feel Nice (Dave Ray) - 3:50 Will Donicht, voc, b, g, keyb; Dave Ray, voc, g, hca; Daniel Lee Hall, voc, keyb, g; Red Rhodes, steel g; Brendan Harkin, maracas; Peter Hodgson, b; Ken Jenkins, str b; Sanford Konikoff, dr; prod. by Alan Emig
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| 18 | 1968 | Fantastic Folk Phil Ochs - Hills Of West Virginia Tom Paxton - Bottle Of Wine Martin & Neil - Dade County Jail Mark Spoelstra - France Blues Incredible String Band - Maybe Someday Dave Ray - Baby Please Don't Go Hamilton Camp - Girl Of The North Country Judy Collins - Pack Up Your Sorrows Spider John Koerner - Duncan And Brady Charles River Valley Boys - I've Just Seen A Face David Blue - So Easy She Goes By Tom Rush - On The Road Again
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| 19 | 1971 3 LP | Garden Of Delights Love - Alone Again Or Bamboo - Girl Of The Seasons Koerner & Murphy - Magazine Lady Gulliver - Rose Come Home Zodiac - Aquarius Tim Buckley - Morning Glory Earth Opera - Home To You Incredible String Band - Air Delaney & Bonnie - In The Ghetto Tom Paxton - Mr Blue Roxy - Love, Love, Love Lonnie Mack - Why Paul Siebel - She Made Me Lose My Blues Farquahr - Start Living Eric Clapton - Crossroads Blues Stooges - Real Cool Time Butterfield Blues Band - In My Own Dream Tom Rush - Circle Game Bread - It Don't Matter To Me Rhinoceros - Apricot Brandy David Ackles - Down River Crabby Appleton - To All My Friends Voices Of East Harlem* - No, No, No Judy Collins - Someday Soon compiled by Jac & Keith Holzman; artwork by Gene Szafran
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| 20 | 1/1972 | Good Old Koerner, Ray & Glover (live 1963-1964) - Black Jack Davy (Trad., Carter Family) This was the opening number of the 1963 concert. - Down To Louisiana (Waters, Hopkins) Usually performed with Tony on harp, this version is a Dave Ray solo. Recorded in 1964 - Too Bad (Koerner) One of John's first compositions. It was included on Audiophile album. Performed in '63 with Dave Ray - Dust My Broom (Johnson) Only other version is on Audiophile. Recorded in 1963. - Black Snake Moan (Ledbetter) Recorded in 1964 - Mumblin' Word (Trad., Ledbetter) Included on Audiophile. This version has Dave's line "One day when I was goosed, they nailed him on the cruce." Recorded in '63 - Two Trains (Waters) Recorded in 1964, it is one of Dave's finest performances - Drunken Instrumental (Glover, Ray) "...To Kill Time While Koerner Is Out Taking A Leak" is the full title of this one. From the 1963 concert - Love To You (Dixon, Waters) Previously released with Dave and Tony. This version has John on lead guitar. Recorded in 1963 - Special Agent (Estes) Recorded in 1964 - Mean Ol' Southern (Crudup) K., R., & G.'s last song at '63 concert - Love Bug (Koerner) Done solo by John on Elektra. Here John sings the verses, and all three sing the choruses - Linin' Track (Trad., Ledbetter) These two songs recorded at 1963 concert
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| 21 | 5/1972 | spider john koerner with willie and the bumblebees also featuring tom olson: Music Is Just a Bunch of Notes - Macalester Don't Stop Now 10-Mar-72 - Ramble, Tumble (Koerner) - Don't Terrify Me (Koerner) - Be Careful (Koerner) - Waiting For Go With Normal Dub (Olson) @ youtube - Cindy's (Palmer) - Everybody's Goin' For The Money (Koerner) - Skipper And His Wife (Koerner) - Thief River Falls (Koerner-Murphy) @ youtube - Mr. Image (Olson) - Taking Time (Koerner) - The Wall (Olson) *
* Dave Ray, voc
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| 22 | 1973 | Get Folked - Live At Charlotte's Web - Simply Flowers - Ron Nigrini - McBride Argyle Station Furnished Rooms - Tom Dundee - Motherlode - Dick Pinney - Sundown - Art Thieme - Steel Bridge - Susan & Richard Thomas - You've Got A Hold On Me - Ron Crick - Dibna - Rose Hip String Band - Sad Songs - Tom Dundee - New Boots - Mark Henley - She's My School - Dick Pinney - Life Saver - Dave 'Snaker' Ray @ youtube - Song For The Birds - Mark Henley - Soldiers - Ron Nigrini - Wide Open Spaces - Art Thieme rec. May 23 - 27, 1973 at Charlotte's Web, Rockford, Ill.; prod. by Steven Powers
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| 23 | 10/74 | John Koerner, et al.: Some American Folk Songs Like They Used To - The Farmer's Curst Wife - The Dodger - Hallelujah! I'm A Bum - Stewball * $ - The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn - Days Of '49 - 10,000 Years Ago - Grunt 'N Groan And The New Cave - Jack Of Diamonds * $ - Abdullah Bulbul Amir - Go Down Moses - Casey Jones - Danville Girl * $ - Careless Love - When First Unto This Country * - Grunt N' Groan And The New Wheel
* Tony Glover, harp
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| 24 | 01/77 | Dave Snaker Ray: Kid-Man - Rappahannock (William Moore) - 32-30 (Big Maceo Merriweather) - Two Trains (McKinley Morganfield) - Arthur's Boogle (Arthur Crudup) - Lonesome Road (Sticks McGhee) - Kid Man (John Estes) - Used To Be Beautiful (Joe B. Pugh) - Devil Got My Woman (Skip James) - New New Someday (John Estes) rec. live May 1976
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| 25 | 1980 | Kerrville Folk Festival 1980 Spider John Koerner - Midnight Special (C. Bagby)
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| 26 | 01/84 | Bleecker & McDougal: The Folk Scene Of The 60s, [The Jac Holzman Years] Koerner, Ray & Glover - Good Time Charlie - Titanic - John Hardy
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| 27 | 01/84 | Crossroads (White Blues In The 1960s - The Jac Holzman Years ) Koerner, Ray & Glover - Linin' Track - Hangman - One Kin Favor - Banjo Thing - Jimmy Bell - Corrina - Fannin Street - Black Dog - Poor Howard - Black Betty - Broke-Down Engine - Rent Party Rag - Don't Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Do - Can't Get My Rest At Night
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| 28 | 04/84 | Dave Ray with Tony Glover - Mattie Mae - I Been Watching You
7 inch 45 rpm |
| 29 | 1/85 | DRemly Productions present... From The West Bank Rockoffs - Mystery Miller Beach - O'Malley's Dream Ray and Glover - Mattie May Nigel Eccleston - It Takes A 12-Pack To Make Me Cry Hounddogs - So Long Lazy Bill Kimmel Family Band - 2nd Shift/Blue Bossa The Perks - Jolly Me Willie & The Bees - Personal Meltdown The Swinging Combo - Gotta Go To Bed prod. by Dremly Productions Studio of the Stars, Minneapolis, MN
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| 30 | 01/86 | Spider John Koerner: Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Been - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Sail Away Ladies - Acres Of Clams - Black Dog - Froggie Went A-Courtin' - The Old Chisholm Trail - The Leather-Winged Bat * - Red Apple Juice * - Worried Rambler - What's A Matter With The Mill ? - Shenandoah - The Roving Gambler - St. James Infirmary - Irene - Cotton-Eyed Joe (reprise) * Tony Glover, harmonica
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| 31 | 1987 | Various Artists: Folked Again The Best Of Mountain Railroad, Vol. 1 Tom Paxton - Bad Old Days Dave Snaker Ray - Lonesome Road Betty Kaske - Cross Country Waltz Bob Gibson - Box Of Candy Gibson and Camp - Jimmie Rogers Dick Pinney - Hacklebarney Free Hot Lunch - Treat Me Right Jim Kweskin - Side By Side Jim Post - Hot Summer Night Josh White Jr. - Wherefores And Whys Rod MacDonald - Every Living Thing Steve Young - Rock Salt Gamble Rogers - Skylake Campfire Girls / Kissing Is A Crime / Nails Steve Goodman - Chicago Bust Rag
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| 32 | 12/1987 | Legends In Their Spare Time live at St. Anthony East - Kid Man Blues - Lawton, Oklahoma - If It Ain't Me - 19 Years Old - Black Nights - Kiddie-O - Just A Little Bit - Brownsville - Sad Hours - You Better Watch Yourself - Shake 'Em On Down - Full Moon rec. March 13, 20, and 27 at St. Anthony East, Minneapolis, MN by Stefan Kren; live to two-track, no over-dubs
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| 33 | 1989 | All-Ears Review, Volume 7: Still Amazing After All These Years John Koerner - I Ain't Blue
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| 34 | 1/1990 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Spider John Koerner & U. Utah Phillips: Legends Of Folk live from the World Theater Spider John Koerner - Runnin', Jumpin', Standin' Still - Creepy John - I Ain't Blue - Good Time Charlie - Danville Girl - Everybody's Going For The Money other tracks by Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Utah Phillips
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| 35 | 8/1990 | Dave Ray and Tony Glover: Ashes In My Whiskey - Uncertain Blues (Gillum) - Stuff You Sell (Davis) - If You Haven't Any Hay - Staring At The Ceiling (Ray) - In the Jailhouse Now (Traditional) - Devil Got My Woman (James) - HIV Blues (Glover) - Mean Old Lonesome Train (Hicks/West) - I'm Through With Love (McCoy) - Gravel Road (Rachell) - Elegy #2 (Glover) - Ashes in My Whiskey (Davis) - Catfish Blues (Petway) - I Been Watching You (Glover) - Mattie Mae (Ray/Warren)
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| 36 | 1991 | Folk Song America, Vol. 3: A 20th Century Revival John Koerner - Duncan and Brady
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| 37 | 3/1992 | Spider John Koerner: raised by humans - Prelude - Summer of '88 (Koerner) - Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn (Traditional) - Water Is Wide (Traditional) - Titanic (Traditional) - Boll Weevil (Traditional) - Farmer's Curst Wife (Traditional) - Santy Anno (Traditional) - More Pretty Women Than One (Guthrie/Koerner) - Midnight Special (Leadbelly) - Fox (Traditional) - Old Smoky (Traditional) - Everybody's Going for the Money (Koerner) - Ezekiel (Traditional) - Poem (Koerner)
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| 38 | 8/1992 | Troubadours of the Folk Era, Volume Three: The Groups Koener, Ray & Glover - Linin' Track
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| 39 | 12/1992 | It's Finally Christmas Ray and Glover - I'm Mad At The Fatman
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| 39a | 12/1992 | Poison Idea - Santa Claus Is Back In Town Ray and Glover - I'm Mad At The Fatman
7 inch 45 rpm picture disc
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| 40 | 1993 | Blues With A Feeling Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival disc 1 / Vanguard VCD 73133-2: - Introduction by Dick Waterman (2:05) # Son House (1965) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Preachin' Blues (3:54) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Death Letter (4:01) [Vanguard VSD 79225] # - Empire State Express (3:50) # [Vanguard VSD 25/6; 3VCD 208-10] Skip James (1964 blues workshop, introduction most likely by Bill Barth) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Devil Got My Woman (4:52) @ youtube Bukka White [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (5:00) Robert Pete Williams - Levee Camp Blues (5:26) °° [Vanguard VRS 9180; 3VCD193/95-2] Mississippi Fred McDowell [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Louise Louise (3:05) Rev. Robert Wilkins - Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'round (3:48) @ youtube Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (3:06) @ youtube Fred and Annie Mae McDowell with Rev. Robert Wilkins - What Do You Think About Jesus (5:43) @ youtube Lightnin' Hopkins (July 23, 1965 morning "Blue Guitar" workshop) [ Vanguard VCD 79715-2] - The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite (Monkey Faced Woman) (3:22) @ youtube - Come On Baby (2:13) @ youtube - Baby Please Don't Go (2:46) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Mance Lipscomb [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Freddie (2:01) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - So Different Blues (2:33) @ youtube - God Moves On The Water (The Sinking Of The Titanic) (2:36) @ youtube disc 2 / Vanguard VCD 73134-2: Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (4:02) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Mississippi John Hurt [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Here I Am Lord, Send Me (3:54) - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (3:20) Jesse Fuller [Vanguard VRS-9185; 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:51) °° John Lee Hooker (1964 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Blues (2:48) @ youtube Muddy Waters (1968 blues workshop) [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - Walkin' Blues (4:31) @ youtube - I Can't Be Satisfied (3:16) @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:26) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] Willie Dixon & Lafayette Leake with Pete Seeger, bj - Wrinkles (instr) (3:28) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:44) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Hammond - Drop Down Mama (2:50) Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:55) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:49) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube The Chambers Brothers [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] - See See Rider (3:21) [Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Paul Butterfield Blues Band (July 23, 1965) - Blues With A Feeling (4:12) * [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2; 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube - Look Over Yonders Wall (2:10) * @ youtube - Born In Chicago (4:08) ** [Vanguard 3VCD193/95-2] @ youtube compilation prod. by Mary Katherine Aldin # rec. 1965 live at Newport Folk Festival ("Blues Workshop") in Newport, RI; Son House, voc, g * rec. July 23, 1965 at an afternoon workshop called "Blues: Origins and Offshoots" (late addition to the roster - advertisements for the concert series make no mention of the group); Paul Butterfield, voc, hca; Michael Bloomfield, g; Elvin Bishop, g; Jerome Arnold, b; Sam Lay, dr; Nick Gravenites, voc; ** Bruce Langhorne, tamb "all tracks previously unreleased except" °°
2 CD set
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| 41 | 1/1993 | Blues Masters, Vol 7: Blues Revival Dave Ray - Fannin Street
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| 42 | 6/1993 | Ray & Glover: Picture Has Faded - Tell Me Mama - Jimmy Bell - Can't See Your Face - Downtown Blues - Sitting On Top Of The World - Long-Haired Doney - Ice Blue - Going Away Blues - Afraid To Trust Them - Mellow Chick Swing - Saturday Blues - New Buddy Brown - If It Looks Like Jelly - As The Years Go Passing By
EP bonus tracks:
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| 43 | 2/1994 | Willie Murphy & 'Spider' John Koerner: Running, Jumping, Standing Still - Red Palace (Koerner/Murphy) - I Ain't Blue (Koerner/Murphy) - Bill & Annie (Koerner/Murphy) - Old Brown Dog (Koerner/Murphy) - Running, Jumping, Standing Still (Koerner/Murphy) - Sidestep (Koerner/Murphy) - Magazine Lady (Koerner/Murphy) - Friends and Lovers (Koerner/Murphy) - Sometimes I Can't Help Myself (Koerner/Murphy) - Good Night (Koerner/Murphy) - Some Sweet Nancy (Koerner/Murphy)
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| 44 | 2/1995 | Koerner, Ray & Glover: Blues, Rags and Hollers - Linin' Track - Ramblin' Blues - It's All Right - Hangman - Ted Mack Rag @ youtube - Down To Louisiana - Creepy John - Bugger Burns - Sun's Wail - Dust My Broom - One Kind Favor - Go Down Ol' Hanna - Good Time Charlie - Banjo Thing - Stop That Thing - Too Bad @ youtube - Snaker's Here - Low Down Rounder - Jimmy Bell - Mumblin' Word @ youtube in stereo!
notes by Tony Glover notes by Tony Glover |
| 45 | 8/1995 | House On Fire - An Urban Folk Collection Spider John Koerner - The Leather-Winged Bat
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| 46 | 11/1995 | The Three Bedroom Ramblers: What Was The Question ? - She's Into Something - Heart Of Mine - Baby, Don't Tear My Clothes - Roadrunner - What's Getting Wrong With You ? - Lost Someone - Rosa Lee - Better Get Your Hat - Your Phone Is Ringing - Watchdog - I Made A Mistke - If I Could Be With You - Things Have Gone To Pieces - Mortal Coil Shuffle
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| 47 | 5/1996 | Spider John Koerner: StarGeezer - Intro (Traditional) - Jack of Diamonds (Traditional) - Going Down Together (Koerner/Murphy) - Rattlesnake (Traditional) - Danville Girl (Traditional) - Last Lonesome Blues (Koerner) - Stewball (Traditional) - Skipper & His Wife (Koerner) - Casey Jones (Traditional) - When First Unto This Country - Thief River Falls (Koerner/Murphy) - Phoebe (Koerner) - Days of Forty-Nine (Traditional) - Golden Vanity (Traditional) - Some People Say (Koerner) - Taking My Time (Koerner) - Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael/Mitchell Parish)
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| 48 | 11/1996 | Koerner, Ray & Glover: One Foot In The Groove - Black Jack Davy - Shout Sister Shout - Shenandoah - Terra Mae - Shortnin' Bread - With Body and Soul - Deliah's Gone - France Blues - Dodger - Way Back Down Home - Power Tool - Pick Poor Robin Clean - Boys Were Shooting It Out - You Got to Move - I Ain't Blue
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| 49 | 1998 | Kerrville - The Early Years John Koerner - Mindnight Special
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| 50 | 1/1998 | Dave Snaker Ray: Snake Eyes - So Glad You're Mine - Junco Partner - I Love The Life I Live - Tomorrow Night - One-Room Country Shack - My Mind Is Trying To Leave Me - Down In The Bottom - Coal Man Blues - I'm Sinking - Person-To-Person - Kiddeo - Blow Wind Blow - Spyglass Blues - If It's Really Gotta Be This Way
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| 51 | 7/1998 | Blackburn-Beach Blues Band: Blues In My Heart - It Should Have Been Me - It's Rainin' - Lipstick Traces - Little Coquette - Fightin' The Jug - Romance In The Dark - I Get The Blues When It Rains - Blues In My Heart - Valley Of Tears - I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Black Nights - Winin' Boy Blues - One-Room Country Shack - Rosetta - One For The Highway
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| 52 | 10/1998 | Root Awakening - Ear Opening John Koerner - The Human Race - Stardust
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| 53 | 1999 | The Mississippi - River of Song John Koerner - Sail Away, Ladies
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| 54 | 1/1999 | Koerner, Ray & Glover: Lots More Blues, Rags & Hollers - Black Dog - Whomp Bom - Black Betty - Honey Bee - Crazy Fool - Keep Your Hands Off Her - Duncan and Brady - Fine Soft Land - Red Cross Store - Lady Day - Freeze To Me, Mama - Ted Mack Rag - Fannin Street - Love Bug - Can't Get My Rest At Night - What's The Matter With The Mill - Fixin' To Die * - My Little Woman * - Leavin' Here Blues * - Southbound Train * - Slappin' On My Black Cat Bone * * from 'The Blues Project'
This reissue has been digitally remastered and includes all the tunes from the 1964 Elektra release, plus the five cuts from the 1964 LP 'The Blues Project' |
| 55 | 4/1999 | the return of Koerner, Ray & Glover - I Want To See My Baby - Titanic - You've Got To Be Careful - Looky, Looky Yonder - Statesboro Blues - Eugene C. - Goin' To The Country - The Boys Was Shootin' It Out Last Night - Poor Howard - I Don't Want To Be Terrified - Don't Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Do - Lonesome Road - England Blues - Packin' Trunk - John Hardy
This reissue has been digitally remastered and includes all the tunes from the 1965 Elektra release, plus a set of new notes from Tony Glover |
| 56 | 11/1999 | Back Porch Rockers: By The Water - Lightnin's Troubles - Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Howlin' For My Darlin' - Tomorrow Night - Cry To Me - Everybody's Going For The Money - Person-To-Person - One-Room Country Shack - By The Water - Rock Me, Mama - Mississippi Kid - Mellow Chick Swing - Mother Earth Ray and Glover with Camille Baudoin and Reggie Scanlon
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| 56a | 1999 | Blues At Kerrville Dave Van Ronk - Another Time And Place (4:11) @ youtube Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Sometimes I Feel Myself Slippin' (8:48) @ youtube Roy Book Binder - Kentucky Blues (2:46) @ youtube Marcia Ball - My Man Is A Two Timer (4:42) @ youtube Josh White Jr. - I Can Be Had (6:18) @ youtube Angela Strehli - Telephone Blues (4:55) @ youtube Marcia Ball - Under Love's Spell (5:15) @ youtube Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan - Honey Bee (4:09) @ youtube Mance Lipscomb - Texas Blues (3:26) @ youtube Robert Shaw - Put Me In The Alley (3:49) # @ youtube Juke Boy Bonner - I've Had The Blues (3:32) @ youtube Spider John Koerner - Midnight Special (2:28) @ youtube Kenneth Threadgill - Mississippi Delta Blues (3:20) @ youtube # rec. June 1-3, 1972 live at Kerrville Municipal Auditorium in Kerrville, Tx; Robert Shaw, voc, p # Silverwolf CD SWC 1009
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| 57 | 2000 | The Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs: Forget Your Truffles And Dance ! featuring "Spider" John Koerner - Haybaler - Come On Up To The House - Ugly And Slouchy - If You Were Lonely - Prodigal Son - Wrong Yo-yo - Wheels - Salty Dog - Black Dog - You're Bound To Look Like A Monkey - Hometown Gang - Ooh La La - What's The Matter With The Mill - You Shall Be Free Monah - Light Of The World
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| 58 | 2000 3 CDs | Kerrville Folk Festival John Koerner - Midnight Special
includes The Women Of Kerrville VOL. 2 (1996); Kerrville Folk Festival 25th Anniversary Album (1998); and Blues At Kerrville (1999)
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| 59 | 2000 5 CD set | ELEKTRA The First 50 Years - Limited Edition Promotional Box Set - - Titanic
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| 60 | 2001 | A Nod To Bob An Artist's Tribute to Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday John Koerner & Dave Ray, slide g - Delia
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| 61 | 2001 3-CD box | Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom (1950-1970) - What's The Matter With The Mill
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| 62 | 2001 | Brewhouse Sampler 2 - Live on KUMD Peter Mayer - Holy Now Black Eyed Snakes - Mannish Boy Cry on Cue - Seven Sundays Jerree Small - Tainted Consolation Becky Barksdale - Goin' Back to Texas Jake LaBotz - What You Got to Do for Me Christian Howes/Rez Abassi Quartet - Song for My Daughter Stuart Davis - Swim Dave "Snaker" Ray - Kid Man Father Hennepin - Black Cat Brian Joens - Poetry Gild - Free Me Erik Koskinen - Losing My Pride Paul Metsa - Honeymoon in Drag Alley Low - Sunflower A sampling of in-studio on-air sessions from the KUMD music room, all done between June 2000 and August 2001
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| 62a | 2003 | Roots Of The Blues disc 1 "Folk Blues": Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:47) The Chambers Brothers - See See Rider (3:08) John Hammond - Statesboro Blues (3:39) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (3:53) Dave Van Ronk - Cocaine (3:46) Buffy Sainte-Marie - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (2:51) °° Spider John Koerner - Traveling Blues (4:44) Bill Monroe - Blue Yodel # 4 (2:43) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman (4:19) Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Geoff & Maria Muldaur - Chevrolet (3:51) Sam & Kirk McGee - Milk Cow Blues (2:31) °° Tony Glover - I Dont Need No Whiskey (4:30) °° Josh White - What You Gonna Do When Your Meat Gives Out (1:49) °° Eric Von Schmidt - Grizzly Bear (4:34) Mance Lipscomb - Keep On Truckin' Mama (1:35) °° disc 2 "Delta & Country Blues": Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Rev. Gary Davis - You Got To Move (5:50) Skip James - I'm So Glad (1:53) Son House - Empire State Express (3:50) Bukka White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (4:45) Mississippi Fred McDowell - If The River Was Whiskey (2:34) Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (2:53) Odetta - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:13) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:37) Sleepy John Estes - Clean Up At Home (2:59) Mance Lipscomb - Freddie (1:50) Memphis Slim - How Long (2:59) Robert Pete Williams - Midnight Boogie (3:25) [Vanguard VRS 9180, Vanguard VSD 77/78, Vanguard CD 70193-2, Vanguard 3VCD 208-10] @ youtube Eddie Boyd & Willie Dixon - Five Long Years (2:22) Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (5:12) disc 3 "Urban Blues": Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid (2:21) Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:14) J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Going Ahead (2:03) Otis Spann - Marie (2:28) James Cotton - Rocket 88 (2:03) Homesick James And His Dusters - Dust My Broom (3:17) Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - One More Time (2:26) The Johnny Shines Blues Band - If I Get Lucky (3:23) Buddy Guy - One Room Country Shack (5:30) Muddy Waters with Otis Spann - Blow Wind Blow (3:09) Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go (2:37) Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With A Feeling (3:55) Charlie Musselwhite - Juke (4:18) Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain (6:48) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (3:01) compilation prod. by Tom Vickers; cover design by Ann Smalley; photography by David Gahr °° previously unreleased tracks
3-CD set |
| 63 | 2013 | Spider John Koerner: What's Left Of Spider John - The Dodger - The Leather-Winged Bat - Phoebe - Running, Jumping, Standing Still - Ezekiel - Days Of '49 - What's The Matter With The Mill? - Stewball - God's Penny - Everybody's Goin' For The Money - Creepy John - Good Time Charlie - Rattlesnake - Delia's Gone - Acres Of Clams - Last Lonesome Blues - Nightbird Eyes rec. in the summer of 2012 in London; UK; Spider John Koerner, voc, g; Chip Taylor Smith, fiddle, bones; Jonny Bridgwood, b on some of the numbers album cover illustrated by Ski Williams
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| 64 | 5/2013 | Spider John - Delia Holmes - Eugene C. - Good Time's Charlie's Back In Town Again - Corrina - Won't You Give Me Some Love # - Stagger Lee - Ramblin' Blues - Creepy John - I Don't Want To Be Terrified - Don't Stop # [] rec. February 1, 1967 at The Ash Grove in Los Angeles, CA; 'Spider' John Koerner, voc, g, hca # rec. 1966 in New York City; 'Spider' John Koerner, voc, g, hca; Al Kooper, g; Felix Pappalardi, b; Roy Blumenfeld, dr; [] Tony Glover, hca (previously available on Elektra EKSN-45005)
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| 65 | 2014 | Dave Ray / Legacy disc 1 (1962 to 1987): - Alabama Women (3:24) - Go Down Old Hannah (2:43) - Wildwood Flower (2:49) - Hot Rod Terraplane (7:39) - Fannin Street (2:29) - Frankie And Albert (9:49) - Keep What Makes You Feel Nice (3:53) - Lonesome Road (4:01) - Old Country Rock (3:02) - Becky Dean (2:40) - Devil Got My Woman (5:01) - New Someday Baby (3:12) - Louisiana Blues / Meet Me In The Bottom (7:01) - Walking The Dog (4:35) - Fighting That Jug (2:16) - Somebody Loan Me A Dime (4:29) disc 2 (1988 to 1994): - If It Ain't Me (2:50) - Long Distance Call (4:38) - Take Out Some Insurance (3:54) - Going Down Slow (4:34) - Be My Chauffeur (2:53) - Last Fair Deal (3:07) - Lawton, OK (3:46) - Uncertain Blues (2:59) - Catfish Blues (3:06) - Gravel Road (2:43) - Ashes In My Whiskey (2:22) - Long Hair Doney (4:03) - Big Road (4:16) - Temple's Cure (3:33) - Can't Be Satisfied (3:22) - Statesboro Blues (3:14) - Mother Earth (3:37) - Fort Worth And Dallas (2:37) - Going Away (3:26) - You Got To Move (3:18) - I Made A Mistake (3:08) (Three Bedroom Ramblers) disc 3 (1995 to 2002): - Shake 'Em On Down (5:26) - Coal Man (3:32) - My Mind Is Trying To Leave Me (4:37) - Wild About Her (2:15) - With Body And Soul (2:44) - Trust In Me (4:12) - It Should Have Been Me (4:25) - Radio Spot (1:15) - Take Time To Know Her (6:58) - Got Loving If You Want It (4:45) - Fare Thee Well (3:06) - That Will Never Happen No More (2:42) - Rowdy Blues (3:54) - It's All Over Now (5:17) - Key To The Highway (3:50) - Almost As If (3:13) - So Glad I'm Living (4:36) (with Geoff Muldaur) - If It's Really Got To Be This Way (3:14) (from "Snake Eyes" CD) compiled and prod. by Tony Glover
3 CD set |
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| # | year of release | Artist: Record Title - featured Koerner, Ray & Glover song / label # / notes |
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| 1 | 1971 | Bonnie Raitt - I Ain't Blue (Koerner)
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| 2 | 1979 | Dave Peabody: Payday - Something Different (Paul Geremia) - Payday (Mississippi John Hurt) - Jesus Be My Saviour (Dave Peabody) - Gone By Midnight (Dave Peabody) § - Blues Gonna Getcha (Dave Peabody) - Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville (Jimmie Davis) ** - Slappin' On My Black Cat Bone (Dave Ray) - You Just As Well Let Her Go (Casey Bill Weldon) § ** - Knockin' Myself Out (Lil Grenn) * - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (Ida Cox) - South Carolina Rag (Willie Walker) # - Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away (Oscar 'Buddy' Woods) § - I Know (Dave Peabody) - I Got A Gal (Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson) § rec. June/August 1979 at Standfast Studios, Putney, London; Dave Peabody, 6-str g, 12-str g, National Steel g, hca, voc; # Roy Bookbinder, 6-str g; Steve Philips * 6-str g, ** National Steel g; § Diz Watson, p; prod. by Ritchie Bull
Dave Peabody discography |
| 3 | 1990 | Paul Rishell: Blues On A Holiday - Creepy John (Koerner)
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| 4 | 2001 2 CD Set | The Kinks: The Complete BBC Sessions: 1964 - 1977 - Good Luck Child (Koerner) as 'Good Luck Charm'
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| 5 | 2003 | Peter Lang: Guitar - Little Cairo - After The Fall - Come Along Joe - John Hurt In The 21st Century - I Should Have Known - Brick House Blues - Snaker Ray Has Come & Gone - Emily's Waltz - Daylight Is Darkness - Witness To The Messenger - All Through My Life
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| 1 | 2003 | Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum, Victor DeLorenzo, Malachi DeLorenzo (MVM): Navigator - For Me - And His Middle Name Was Bill - Above It All - Laughing Dog - I Am Falling Out Of Love - Snaker - 400 - Rains Down - Mabel Tells The Truth About You - Sal Mineo's Hair - Navigation - So Whistle
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| Thanks to Eric Peltoniemi of Red House Records and Mark Trehus of nero's neptune records for corrections/additional info / scans |
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b. August 31, 1938 in Rochester, New York
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d. November 28, 2002 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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b. October 7, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota