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Artist:
KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN
Title:
March 1963
Label:
NERO'S NEPTUNE
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
NN 006CD
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.
Artist:
KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN
Title:
March 1963
Label:
NERO'S NEPTUNE
Format:
LP
Price:
$18.50
Catalog #:
NN 006LP
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. Tip-on sleeves, pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
Artist:
KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN
Title:
Music Is Just A Bunch Of Notes/The Secret Of Sleep
Label:
NERO'S NEPTUNE
Format:
CD/DVD
Price:
$22.00
Catalog #:
NN 013CD
Music Is Just A Bunch Of Notes
was cut in 1972 in an upstairs storefront building above a coffee house on Minneapolis' West Bank. One of the counterculture's first entirely DIY efforts, it was engineered by 12-string guitar legend
Dave "Snaker" Ray
and released on his fledgling Sweet Jane label. All of the songs are Koerner originals; the tunes are sequenced with a cinematic eye and interspersed with weird spoken-word bits. The album includes several mainstays of John's repertoire, including the timeless "Everybody's Goin' For The Money," a song that sums up the uniquely Koernerian brand of existentialism as tidily as any. This CD is mastered from the original tapes and is reissued for the first time since the rare 1972 release. The DVD disc features a previously unreleased 16mm movie made by
Bruce Rubenstein
,
David Rubenstein
&
The Secret Of Sleep. In it, Percival (John Koerner) gets a call in which he's told to go on a mysterious quest. Percy and his buddy (Willie Murphy) wander around in various utopian settings, but in the end, they return to the city to contend with reality. Digitally restored in 2009, released on DVD for the first time, this is a tremendous bit of lost holy grail for Koerner enthusiasts. NTSC region 1 DVD (run time: 60 minutes; audio: mono; black & white; aspect ratio: 4x3 letterbox).
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