SPIDER BLUES – JOHN KOERNER

Elektra Records
1965
Guitar [7-String], Harmonica – John Koerner
Harmonica [Mouth Harp] – Tony Glover (tracks: 1, 4, 13)
Tracklist
A1 Good Luck Child 2:07
A2 I Want To Be Your Partner 3:07
A3 Nice Legs 2:24
A4 Spider Blues 2:18
A5 Corrina 3:14
A6 Shortnin' Bread 2:07
A7 Ramblin' And Tumblin' 3:10
A8 Delia Holmes 2:54 A Woman 2:05
B2 I Want To Do Something 3:32
B3 Baby, Don't Come Back 2:38
B4 Hal C. Blake 1:42
B5 Things Ain't Right 3:33
B6 Rent Party Rag 9:35
Spider Blues is the debut solo album by blues artist "Spider" John Koerner, released in 1965. He was a member of the loose-knit blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover at the time of its release.
As a member of the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, Koerner was recording on the Elektra label. While recording the trio's albums Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers and The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover he recorded a number of solo tracks. These tracks were assembled into Koerner's debut solo album. He also appeared at the Newport Folk Festival that same year, accompanied by trio member Tony Glover.
His style would change with his subsequent releases from the blues to more traditional folk music. In a 2000 interview, Koerner said, "I finally decided I was not a blues guy. How could I be? I was too young and too white, all that shit. So I took a year off and when I started playing again, I treated the subject in general as folk music. It's a new culture; it's not music being made on a back porch anymore.

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