Tony Glover
| Tony Glover | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Dave Glover |
| Also known as | Little Sun |
| Born |
October 7, 1939 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Genres | Blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, author |
| Instruments | Harmonica, vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1963 – present |
| Labels |
Elektra Red House |
| Associated acts | Koerner, Ray & Glover, Dave "Snaker" Ray, John Koerner |
Tony "Little Sun" Glover (born Dave Glover, October 7, 1939, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) is an American blues musician and music critic.[1] He is a harmonica player and singer who was most notably associated with "Spider" John Koerner and Dave "Snaker" Ray in the early 1960s folk revival. Together, the three released albums under the name Koerner, Ray & Glover. Glover is also the author of diverse harp songbooks and a co-author, along with Ward Gaines and Scott Dirks, of an award-winning biography of Little Walter, 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.[2] The group never rehearsed together or did much at all together. Ray referred to the group as "Koerner and/or Ray and/or Glover".[3]
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.[3] In 2007, he produced a documentary video on the trio, entitled Blues, Rags and Hollers: The Koerner, Ray & Glover Story.
Glover is the author of several blues harp songbooks and a co-author, along with Ward Gaines and Scott Dirks, of an award-winning biography of Little Walter, Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story, published in 2002.[4]
Glover is a prolific rock critic, having written 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 Twin Cities Reader and City Pages. He also wrote liner notes for albums by John Hammond, Sonny Terry, John Lee Hooker, Michael Lessac, Sonny & Brownie, Willie & the Bees and the Jayhawks and for The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert.
Glover taught harmonica to David Johansen and Mick Jagger.[5]
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)
References
- ↑ DeRogatis, Jim (2003). Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 196. ISBN 1617802158. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- ↑ Stefan Wirz Discography
- 1 2 Blues, Rags and Hollers: The Koerner, Ray & Glover Story. 1995. Latch Lake (Video documentary)
- ↑ Routledge Press entry for Blues with a Feeling. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
- ↑ "Spider John Koerner & Tony Glover Perform at the Red House Live Series at the Landmark Center". KFAI. November 15, 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.