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01. Spider John Koerner - Interview
02. Spider John Koerner - Duncan & Brady
03. Spider John Koerner - Southbound Train
04. Spider John Koerner - Hangman
05. Spider John Koerner - Rock Me
06. Spider John Koerner - Too Bad Blues
07. Spider John Koerner - Guitar Fools
08. Spider John Koerner - Creepy John
09. Spider John Koerner - You've Got To Be Careful
10. Spider John Koerner - Interview
11. Spider John Koerner - Good Time Charlie
12. Spider John Koerner - Ramblin' Blues
13. Spider John Koerner - (untitled instrumental, edited)
ARTIST
TITLE
March 1963
FORMAT
CD

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RELEASE DATE
11/9/2010

A major archival discovery, taped March 24, 1963 for a Milwaukee, Wisconsin radio program, on the eve of the very same day that the seminal Blues, Rags & Hollers LP by Koerner, Ray & Glover was created. Spider John Koerner is the man who first introduced a young Bob Dylan to the 12-string guitar, a bona fide legend who is acknowledged as an influence by artists as diverse as John Lennon, Beck, The Doors & Dylan himself. Nearly 50 years ago, Paul Nelson, writing in the Little Sandy Review and Sing Out respectively, said that "Koerner's art is like Chaplin's, as great and lasting as it is entertaining," while calling him "the most innovatively brilliant acoustic blues musician of his generation." In the year 2010 -- seldom performing and now in his 70s -- the reclusive Koerner is "one of the world's greatest living practitioners of traditional American folk music." It is with enormous pride that Nero's Neptune presents this long-lost piece of American musical history.