The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover

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The Return of Koerner, Ray and Glover
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1965
RecordedAugust 1965
Genre Blues
Length42:55
Label Elektra EKL-305 (mono) EKS-7305 (stereo)
Producer Paul Rothchild
Koerner, Ray & Glover chronology
Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers
(1964)
The Return of Koerner, Ray and Glover
(1965)
Good Old Koerner, Ray & Glover
(1972)

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.

Contents

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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicHound Blues Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]

AllMusic critic Jeff Burger wrote that "...this beautifully remasters 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." [1] In his JazzTimes review, music critic Bill Milkowski called the album "a quintessential white boy blues album that helped fuel the '60s blues boom." [5] 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." [6]

Track listing

  1. "I Want to See My Baby" (John Koerner) – 3:05
  2. "Titanic" (Lead Belly) – 4:05
  3. "You've Got to Be Careful" (Koerner) – 2:50
  4. "Looky Looky Yonder" (Lead Belly, Alan Lomax, John Lomax) – 1:10
  5. "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell) – 3:05
  6. "Eugene C." (Koerner) – 2:25
  7. "Goin' to the Country" (Koerner) – 2:40
  8. "The Boys Was Shootin' It Out Last Night" (Koerner) – 2:45
  9. "Poor Howard" (Lead Belly, Lomax, Lomax) – 2:25
  10. "I Don't Want to Be Terrified" (Koerner) – 3:50
  11. "Don't Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Do" (Tony Glover) – 3:05
  12. "Lonesome Road" (traditional) – 2:35
  13. "England Blues" (Koerner) – 2:35
  14. "Packin' Truck" (Lead Belly, Lomax, Lomax) – 3:55
  15. "John Hardy" (traditional) – 2:25

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. 1 2 Burger, Jeff. "The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  2. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Koerner, Ray and Glover". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. New York: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. p. 899. ISBN   978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. Knopper, Steve (1998). "Koerner, Ray & Glover". In Rucker, Leland (ed.). MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. ISBN   978-1-57859-030-8.
  4. Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 371. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  5. Milkowski, Bill (September 1999). "Review: The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover". JazzTimes .
  6. Dickinson, Tim (July–August 1999). "Review: The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover". Mother Jones (24): 82.