Tony Glover
Tony Glover
Person from United States
Genres: harmonica blues, blues, traditional blues
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About Tony Glover
Tony "Little Sun" Glover (born Dave Glover on 7 October 7 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; died 29 May 2019 ) was an American blues musician and music critic. He was a harmonica player and singer who was most notably associated with "Spider" John Koerner and Dave "Snaker" Ray in the early Sixties Folk Revival. Together, the three released albums under the name Koerner, Ray & Glover. He was also known as author of diverse 'harp song books', and was co-author, along with Ward Gaines and Scott Dirks, of the award-winning Little Walter biography Blues with a Feeling – The Little Walter Story. Biography Glover was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939. As a teenager he performed in various local bands, playing guitar before taking up the blues harp. In 1963 he joined John Koerner and Dave Ray to form the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover. From 1963 to 1971, either solo or in some combination of the trio, they released at least one album a year. The group never rehearsed together or did much at all together. Ray referred to the group as "Koerner and/or Ray and/or Glover". In the late sixties, Glover was an all-night underground disc-jockey on KDWB-AM in Minneapolis before forming the band Nine Below Zero. He also often performed as a duo with Ray and with Koerner, Ray & Glover reunion concerts. In 2007, he produced a documentary video on the trio titled Blues, Rags and Hollers: The Koerner, Ray & Glover Story. Glover was the author of several blues harp song books, and was co-author, along with Ward Gaines and Scott Dirks, of the award-winning Little Walter biography Blues with a Feeling – The Little Walter Story, published by Routledge Press in 2002. Glover was a prolific rock critic, having penned articles for the Little Sandy Review (1962–63), Sing Out! (1964–65), Hullabaloo/Circus (1968–71), Hit Parader (1968), Crawdaddy (1968), Eye (1968), Rolling Stone (1968–73), Junior Scholastic (1970), CREEM (1974–76), Request (1990–99), MNBLUES.COM (1999–present) and The Reader and City Pages. He also authored liner notes for John Hammond, Sonny Terry, John Lee Hooker, Michael Lessac, Sonny & Brownie, Willie & The Bees, The Jayhawks, and The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert. Glover has taught harmonica to David Johansen and Mick Jagger. Discography with Koerner, Ray & Glover Blues, Rags and Hollers (1963) Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers (1964) The Return of Koerner, Ray & Glover (1965) Good Old Koerner, Ray & Glover (1972) One Foot in the Groove (1996) with Dave Ray Legends in Their Spare Time (1987) Ashes in My Whiskey (1990) Picture Has Faded (1993) with John Koerner Live @ The 400 Bar (2009) with V3 V3 (2004) Official Website: Tony Glover
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