Stranger Songs
Tuesday June 4th, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1: Remembering Spider John Koerner (1938-2024) / Part 2: The Enduring Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972)
There are two themes this week on Stranger Songs. In part 1 of the show, we’ll remember Spider John Koerner, the influential folk and blues legend who died of cancer on May 18 at age 85, and in part 2 we’ll celebrate the enduring legacy of the gospel, blues and folk legend Reverend Gary Davis who died in 1972 at age 76.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Part 1: Remembering Spider John Koerner (1938-2024)
Spider John Koerner was already one of the leading performers on the Minneapolis folk scene when Robert Zimmerman, still a teenager, moved there to attend the University of Minnesota. Spider John was highly influential in the musical direction that Zimmerman took that year – including beginning to call himself Bob Dylan. In his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan wrote: “Koerner was tall and thin with a look of perpetual amusement on his face. We hit it off right away … when he spoke he was soft-spoken but when he sang he became a field holler shouter. Koerner was an exciting singer and we began playing a lot together.” I first discovered Spider John Koerner while I was a teenager. It was probably 1969 or ’70 when I bought an LP called Blues, Rags & Hollers by the trio of Koerner, Ray & Glover – Spider John Koerner, Dave Snaker Ray and Tony Little Sun Glover. The album, from 1963, was mostly solo cuts by one or another of the three, along with a few duo cuts by two of the three. |
| Linin' Track Koerner, Ray & Glover - Blues, Rags & Hollers - Red House |
| Spider, Snaker and Little Sun Ray Wylie Hubbard - Tell the Devil I’m Coming As Fast As I Can - Bordello |
| Black Dog Spider John Koerner & Dave “Snaker” Ray - (Lots More) Blues, Rags & Hollers - Red House |
| What’s the Matter with the Mill Koerner, Ray & Glover - (Lots More) Blues, Rags & Hollers - Red House |
| Froggie Went a-Courtin’ Spider John Koerner - Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Been - Red House |
| The Roving Gambler Spider John Koerner - Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Been - Red House |
| The Days of Forty-Nine Spider John Koerner - StarGeezer - Red House |
| Taking My Time Spider John Koerner - StarGeezer - Red House |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Part 2: The Enduring Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972)
Reverend Gary Davis, who died in 1972 at age 76, was a highly influential legend of blues, gospel and folk music. His guitar playing influenced many of the artists who came into the folk scene in the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and continuing to the present. |
| You Got to Move Reverend Gary Davis - A Little More Faith - Prestige/Bluesville |
| Motherless Children Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| I'll Fly Away Mr. Rick - Mr. Rick Sings About God + Booze - Mr. Rick
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| Sit Down on the Banks (performed by Mary Flower) Various Artists - Gary Davis Style: The Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis - Riverlark 
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| Reverend Strut Michael Jerome Browne - Gettin’ Together - Borealis/Stony Plain
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| I’m Glad I’m in That Number Reverend Gary Davis - A Little More Faith - Prestige/Bluesville |
| When I Die Marie Knight - Let Us Get Together: A Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis - M.C. |
| Pure Religion Andy Cohen - Oh Glory, How Happy I Am: The Sacred Songs of Rev. Gary Davis - Riverlark |
| I Heard the Angels Singing (performed by William Lee Ellis) Various Artists - Gary Davis Style: The Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis - Riverlark
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| The Preacher Picked the Guitar Roy Book Binder - Singer-Songwriter Bluesman - PEGleg |
| Cocaine Dave Van Ronk - Live at Sir George Williams University - Just a Memory
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| Buck Dance Reverend Gary Davis - Live & Kickin’ - Just a Memory
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| Candy Man Guy Davis - Stomp Down Rider - Red House |
| God Knows How Much We Can Bear (performed by Penny Lang & Friends) Various Artists - Gary Davis Style: The Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis - Riverlark
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| Samson & Delilah (performed by Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith) Various Artists - Gary Davis Style: The Legacy of Reverend Gary Davis - Riverlark
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| Twelve Gates to the City Bruce Cockburn - Bone on Bone - True North
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| I Will Do My Last Singing in This Land Somewhere Reverend Gary Davis - Live at Newport - Vanguard |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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3:14 PM, June 4th, 2024