Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers is an album by the blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 trio Koerner, Ray & Glover

Koerner, Ray & Glover

Koerner, Ray & Glover is the name of a blues band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band featured Tony "Little Sun" Glover on harmonica, "Spider" John Koerner on guitar and vocals, and Dave "Snaker" Ray on guitar and vocals. Koerner, Ray & Glover were part of the early folk/blues explosion in the...

, released in 1964.

History

Between this release and their next, Dave Ray and John Koerner would each record a solo album, Snaker's Here and Spider Blues

Spider Blues

Spider Blues is the debut solo album by blues artist "Spider" John Koerner, released in 1965. He was member of the loose-knit blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover at the time of its release.-History:...

respectively. The trio also appeared at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival

Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival...

 and their performance was recorded for the Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

 album Newport Folk Festival 1964: Evening Concerts Vol. 3. The songs performed by the trio included "Blackjack Davy" and "What's the Matter with the Mill".

Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers was reissued by Red House Records

Red House Records

Red House Records is an American independent record label specializing in folk music and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.The label was originally created in 1981 by Greg Brown as a method to distribute his own music, and is named for a farmhouse in Iowa where he was living...

 in 1999 with five bonus tracks from the original sessions. It was also reissued by WEA International along with Blues, Rags and Hollers

Blues, Rags and Hollers

Blues, Rags and Hollers is the debut album by American country blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, released in 1963.- History :The debut album of the country blues trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota featured Tony "Little Sun" Glover on harmonica, "Spider" John Koerner on guitar and vocals, and Dave...

in 2004.

Reception

In his review of the 1999 reissue of their second album, No Depression critic Joel Roberts stated Koerner, Ray and Glover "emerged as one of the best and most popular groups on the burgeoning ’60s blues-folk revival scene" and said their original tunes "stand up next to the classics."

Calling them "the best white blues group", Allmusic critic Jeff Burger wrote "Koerner and Ray were first-rate guitarists, Glover could play harmonica like nobody's business and they all sang with style, enthusiasm, and a dash of humor. Plus, they had great material, some from blues giants like Lead Belly and Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist.-Career:...

, but much of it original."

Track listing

1. "Black Dog" (Traditional) – 2:11
2. "Whomp Bom" (John Koerner) – 3:04
3. "Black Betty" (Lead Belly) – :59
4. "Honey Bee" (McKinley Morganfield
   Muddy Waters
   McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
   
   ) – 4:59
5. "Crazy Fool" (Koerner) – 3:40
6. "Keep Your Hands off Her" (Lead Belly, Gil Turner) – 1:57
7. "Duncan and Brady" (Koerner) – 4:30
8. "Fine Soft Land" (Dave Ray) – 3:50
9. "Red Cross Store" (Lead Belly, Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
   
   , John Lomax
   John Lomax
   John Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs...
   
   ) – 1:58
10. "Lady Day" (Koerner) – 3:46
11. "Freeeze to Me, Mama" (Ray) – 2:21
12. "Ted Mack Rag" (Koerner) – 1:33
13. "Fannin Street" (Lead Belly) – 5:04
14. "Love Bug" (Koerner) – 2:20
15. "Can't Get My Rest at Night" (Ray) – 3:21
16. "What's the Matter with the Mill?" (Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the only female blues artist considered a match to male contemporaries as both a singer and an instrumentalist.-Career:...
    
    ) – 2:07

    1999 reissue bonus tracks:

17. "Fixin' to Die" (Ray, White
    Bukka White
    Booker T. Washington White , better known as Bukka White, was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a phonetic misspelling of White's given name Booker, by his second record label .-Biography:Born between Aberdeen and Houston, Mississippi, White was the...
    
    ) – 3:47
18. "My Little Woman" (Koerner) – 2:10
19. "Leavin' Here Blues" (Ray) – 4:48
20. "Southbound Train" (Koerner) – 4:04
21. "Slappin' on My Black Cat Bone" (Ray) – 2:14

Personnel

• Tony "Little Sun" Glover – harmonica, vocals, liner notes, arranger
• "Spider" John Koerner – guitar, harmonica, arranger, vocals
• Dave "Snaker" Ray – guitar, arranger, vocals

Production notes

• Paul Rothchild
  Paul A. Rothchild
  Paul A. Rothchild was a prominent American record producer of the late 1960s and 1970s.-Early years:Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rothchild grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and graduated from Teaneck High School in 1953....
  
   – producer
• Jac Holzman
  Jac Holzman
  Jac Holzman was the founder, chief executive officer and head of both Elektra Records and Nonesuch Records.-Biography:He founded Elektra Records in his St. John's College dorm room in 1950 and Nonesuch Records in 1964...
  
   – producer, production supervisor
• Chris Frymire – remixing, mastering
• Tony Glover – remixing, mastering
• William S. Harvey – cover design
• Dave Ray – remixing, mastering
• Eric Peltoniemi – design, reissue production supervisor
• Paul Nelson
  Paul Nelson (critic)
  Paul Nelson was a folk and rock music critic who wrote for Sing Out! and Rolling Stone. He was instrumental in launching and supporting the careers of Bob Dylan, The New York Dolls, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon...
  
  – liner Notes, assistant producer