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01. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - The Farmer's Curst Wife
02. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - The Dodger
03. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Hallelujah! I'm A Bum
04. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Stewball
05. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
06. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Days of '49
07. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - 10,000 Years Ago
08. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Grunt 'n Groan and the New Cave
09. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Jack of Diamonds
10. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Abdullah Bulbul Amir
11. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Go Down Moses
12. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Casey Jones
13. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Danville Girl
14. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Careless Love
15. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - When First Unto This Country
16. SPIDER JOHN KOERNER - Grunt 'n Groan and the New Wheel
ARTIST
TITLE
Some American Folk Songs Like They Used To
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
NN 019LP NN 019LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/9/2015

After moving to Denmark in 1972 and abandoning music for a spell, the legendary Spider John Koerner returned to the U.S. in 1974 to record an LP for Dave Ray's Sweet Jane label. The resulting record is one of the finest of his 50-plus-year career. As its title implies, the album displays a conscious move away from the folk-blues stylings of earlier recordings and toward an embrace of traditional American folk music. The enduring quality of its songs is evidenced by their continued inclusion on Koerner's set lists over 40 years later. This first-ever reissue of Some American Folk Songs Like They Used To is the fourth release by Koerner on Nero's Neptune. Available in a limited artist's edition of 300 numbered copies, the record is mastered from remarkably well-preserved first-generation reel-to-reel tapes. The lacquers were cut by Ralph Karsten at Atma-Sphere, and the LP pressed at RTI. There is no digital technology used at any point in the process. Not only is the sound better than on the original 1974 release, but the beautiful, hand-printed covers feature new and improved artwork from a woodblock designed by Nero's Neptune art director and recording artist Paul Metzger.