John Hartford

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John Hartford: Storyteller!

"John Hartford's death was a great loss to American music. Seldom has there been a singer/songwriter who has remained truer to his roots and more focused on his musical mission - in John's case to sing and write the very finest bluegrass music that he could." ~~S.R Gulverzan

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Wikipedia on John Hartford 

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 - June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

 

In the annals of American folk music, now undergoing a solid revival, John Hartford will surely rank among the best as both a performer and writer. It is too bad he is no longer with us but he has left a legacy of great value. This CD shows several sides of him from traditional folk/bluegrass to the playful. If you are a folk music fan I'd get this one.
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John Hartford's Gum Tree Canoe 

Original Release Date: 1987

After a four year recording hiatus, our hero returns with yet another wonderfully soulful, gentle album, with material ranging from rock covers to super-sentimental oldies such as "Lorena", a sentimental tearjerker that dates back to the Civil War. Every tune is effective and stirring in Hartford's hands -- he has a way of sitting back and letting the melody pass by him, then sort of calling out and saying "hey" with the lyrics, it's such a minutely flawed delivery that you believe in the humanity of the singer every single time... Even on rock covers such as the Stones' "No Expectations" or the Janis Joplin oldie, "Take A Piece Of My Heart," his read is so original that he completely avoids the usual "novelty cover" pigeonhole that other newgrassers fall into... Nice record, highly recommended.
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Gum Tree Canoe

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John Hartford Radio 

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John Hartford - Learning To Smile -03 Gentle On My Mind 

Shot in a studio with TV cameras, and no audience, John sings many favorites on this video.
Never released on DVD, and no longer produced on VHS, this OOP video is getting harder to find. johnny85er was lucky enough to obtain a sealed copy and encode off the 1st play of the tape.
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Gentle on My Mind 

"Gentle On My Mind" is a song written by John Hartford, which won two 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford himself won the award for Best Folk Performance. The other award, Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male, went to Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song.

Hartford said that he was inspired to write the song's poignant lyrics after seeing the film Doctor Zhivago.

Campbell used "Gentle On My Mind" as the theme to his late-1960s TV variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.

While Campbell's version remains the best known in the US, versions by Patti Page and Aretha Franklin were also Hot 100 hits in 1968 and 1969, respectively. In the UK, the version by Dean Martin reached number 2 in 1969. More recently, it was recorded by Lucinda Williams and this version was featured over the closing credits in the 2006 comedy movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
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Gentle On My MindMusic/lyrics-John Hartford, 1967
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Gentle on My Mind Lyrics 

It's knowing that your door is always open
and your path is free to walk,
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
by forgotten words and bonds
and the ink stains that have dried upon some line,
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of memory,
and keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
planted on their columns now that bind me,
Or something that somebody said
because they thought we fit together walkin'.
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads
by the rivers of my memory
and for hours you're just gentle on my mind.

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
and the junkyards and the highways come between us,
And some other woman's crying to her mother
'cause she turned and I was gone.
I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
and summer sun might burn me till I'm blind,
But not to where I cannot see
you walkin' on the back roads,
by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin',
crackling cauldron in some train yard;
My beard a roughn'ning coal pile
and a dirty hat pulled low across my face;
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can,
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find,
That you're wavin' from the back roads
by the rivers of my memory
ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind...

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Gentle On My Mind 

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Watch John perform in his quiet, gentle way. He plays various instruments and keeps a beat clogging while he plays and sings!

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Down on the River 

Down on the River

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Hartford With His Fiddle 

John and Gospel 

With Rita Coolidge and Glen Campbell

Here's a rare video with Rita Coolidge, Tanya Tucker, John Hartford on banjo, and Glen Campbell playing the bagpipe!

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Resource Links for John Hartford 

Growing up in University City and attending John Burroughs School, John Hartford was drawn to river life and the music of the banjo and fiddle. He earned two Grammys in 1967 for "Gentle on My Mind," one of the most recorded and broadcast songs ever. Always original yet faithful to tradition, Hartford crafted over 30 albums, including the 1976 Grammy-winner Mark Twang. Famous for his unique one-man show, at times he performed on a riverboat after piloting it the same day. A gifted musician, author, and folk music historian, John Hartford became a powerful voice for his twin muses, the river and its music.
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John Hartford is interviewed by Don Swaim of CBS Radio. Singer and songwriter John Hartford was also a writer and author of Steamboat in a Cornfield. Listen to Don Swaim interview John Hartford in 1986 and enjoy a few of John Hartford's favorite songs, including "Gentle on My Mind."

Listen to the John Hartford interview with Don Swaim, 1986
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ST. LOUIS WALK OF FAME - JOHN HARTFORD Growing up in University City and attending John Burroughs School, John Hartford was
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We are about the love of John Hartford and his music, this group is dedicated to finding everything that we possibly can about John Hartford from his earliest days going forward. His influence on bluegrass and old time music from the start of his career up until his untimly death. We want to help educate about John's music from the Missouri Ridge Runners era to his last couple of shows with the Hartford String Band.

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John Hartford - Lorena 

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I first remember John singing in a Campbell's Soup commercial. Then we saw him playing banjo from the audience at the start of each installment of Glenn Campbell's (don't know if there was any relation) weekly television variety series, and "he made a significant impact as one of the creative renegades who contributed to the 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour's' ingenious irreverence."

John Teams Up 

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John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937- June 4, 2001) was an American country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and danced on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

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Long Hot Summer Days 

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John Hartford A Long Hot Summer Day 

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