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."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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John Hartford Steam Powered Aereoplane
30th Anniversary Reunion Concert
"Please release this as a concert film, it was incredible!" ~~Houts61
On November 11, 2000, the original members of John Hartford's Aereoplane Band gathered in Albany, NY, their 30th Anniversary Reunion Concert. In addition to John Hartford, Tut Taylor, Norman Blake and Vassar Clements their were special guests Sam Bush, Chris Sharp and Mike Compton. From the Reunion Concert here's the original theme song "Steam Powered Aereoplane"
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Houts61 --This was the Sat. night before Thanksgiving in 2000 at the great Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY. There was a full camera crew on hand, and we've been wondering if this would ever surface. Great work and thanks for posting. Please release this as a concert film, it was incredible!
John Hartford Aereo Plain
"It's sentimental stuff, but Hartford keeps the pathos at bay with his eccentric stoner/philosopher humor." Gavin B.
Aereo-Plain
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“Harford Reinvents Bluegrass On Aero-Plain! ~Gavin B.”
John Hartford Aereo Plain
Vinal LP
"John Hartford didn't just bite the hand that fed him; he made it a full-course meal. After Glen Campbell rode Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" to the top of the charts, Hartford was secure enough to stick his tongue out at the Nashville establishment. His songs offer an almost unparalleled blend of sardonicism and sincerity, a silliness tempered by a respect for musical tradition and beautiful melody. And despite his irreverence, he attracted the best pickers in the business. Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Vassar Clements, and Randy Scruggs accompany him on this 1971 "newgrass" gem, a spontaneous album that was recorded live in the studio without any arrangements whatsoever. Delicious instrumentals stand by novelties about sex ("Boogie") and drugs ("Holding"), and semiserious diatribes ("Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry") live next to old-time gospel harmonies ("Turn Your Radio On"). Somehow, Aereo-Plain manages to be deeply cynical and emotionally uplifting at the same time." --Marc Greilsamer
Track Listing
1. Turn Your Radio On
2. Steamboat Whistle Blues
3. Back In The Goodle Days
4. Up On The Hill Where They Do The Boogie 5. Boogie
6. First Girl I Loved
7. Presbyterian Guitar
8. With A Vamp In The Middle
9. Symphony Hall Rag
10. Because Of You
11. Steam Powered Aereo Plane
12. Holding
13. Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry
14. Leather Britches
15. Station Break
16. Turn Your Radio On
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John Hartford
"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 [Gum Tree Canoe]." Harvaes Fiddler
“If you are a folk music fan I'd get this one [Gum Tree Canoe]." Harvaes Fiddler”
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." Joe Sixpac slipcue.com
Gum Tree Canoe
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John Hartford - Learning To Smile -03 Gentle On My Mind
Dancing as he plays and sings
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 Written by John Hartford
"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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- Guitar Tab ( GENTLE ON MY MIND TAB )
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This is the John Hartford I Remember Gentle On My Mind
On The David Letterman Show
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Gentle on My Mind Lyrics
It's knowing that your door is always openand 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...
John Hartford Gentle On My Mind
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Different Artists
| Track | Artist | Album | |
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| Gentle On My Mind | Leonard Nimoy | Spaced Out - The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner | |
| Gentle On My Mind | Béla Fleck, Jamie Hartford & Sam Bush | Part of Your History - The Songs of John Hartford | |
| Gentle on My Mind | Roger Williams | Roger Williams: The Greatest Popular Pianist/The Artist's Choice | |
| Gentle On My Mind | Elvis Presley | Elvis: Great Country Songs | |
| Gentle On My Mind | Patti Page | 16 Most Requested Songs |
Which Version of Gentle On My Mind Do You Prefer?
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"John Hartford was one of the rarest of musical birds. He had one foot deeply rooted in the past and the other always at least a few steps into the future- and both were dancing." ~Larry Groce, Mountain Stage
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| Track | Artist | Album | |
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| I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) | John Hartford | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) | |
| Gentle On My Mind | John Hartford | John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology | |
| Lorena | John Hartford | Songs of the Civil War | |
| Boogie | John Hartford | John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology | |
| Aura Lee | John Hartford | Songs of the Civil War | |
| In Tall Buildings | John Hartford | John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology | |
| Where the Old Red River Flows | John Hartford | Steam Powered Aereo-Takes | |
| The Vamp from Back in the Goodle Days | John Hartford | Steam Powered Aereo-Takes | |
| Gum Tree Canoe | John Hartford | John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology |
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- Part of live concert taped by a fan.
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Who Was John Hartford?
"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." ~~From Wikipedia
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"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." (ST. LOUIS WALK OF FAME)
- John Hartford - Welcome
- The Songs of John Hartford
- John Hartford Audio Interview
- 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
- ST. LOUIS WALK OF FAME - JOHN HARTFORD Growing up in University City and attending John Burroughs School, John Hartford was
- John Hartford Memorial TribiuteYahoo Group
- JohnHartford-Memorial-Tribute: By the River's of my Memory's
- Goodle Days Yahoo Group
- John Hartford Archival Project - This email group has no official ties with John Hartford, his heirs or estate
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. - John Hartford Biography
- Memories of John John Hartford Biography John Hartford won Grammy awards in three different decades, recorded a catalog
of more than 30 albums, and wrote one of the most popular songs of all time, Gentle On My Mind. He was a regular guest a
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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."
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"John Hartford was one of the rarest of musical birds. He had one foot deeply rooted in the past and the other always at least a few steps into the future- and both were dancing." ~~Larry Groce, Mountain Stage
Here I am in Love Again, John and Jamie Hartford, Governor's Lounge
April 1989, Chattanooga, TN
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John Hartford "I Do What I Do"
With a grin and a tip of his bowler, Hartford summed up his career beautifully: "I do what I do with what I got." ~~Bob Proehl
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Wrong Road Again, John and Jamie Hartford, Governor's Lounge
April 1989, Chattanooga, TN
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
"When an album of old-time music goes platinum and hits #1 on the country chart with no significant radio airplay, one may rightly wonder what the hell is going on. The star power of George Clooney in this depression-era Coen Brothers film may have drawn attention, but the soundtrack stands on its own as a remarkable achievement. The 19 rustic tracks here are mountain music, primitive gospel, and the hobo vein of folk, the ancestors of bluegrass and country. You can feel the desperation, simplicity, and reverence of another era through performances by Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, Norman Blake, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, the Fairfield Four, the Whites, the Cox Family, and others, along with a field recording of a chain gang ("Po Lazarus" by James Carter & the Prisoners), Harry McClintock`s 1928 hobo fantasy "Big Rock Candy Mountain," and the Stanley Brothers classic "Angel Band." Union Station takes on the musical identity of the three star characters onscreen, known as the Soggy Bottom Boys, and their stark, unvarnished renditions of "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" and "In the Jailhouse Now" are arresting. Ditto for Ralph Stanley, who raises the hairs on the back of the neck with his acapella mountain singing on "O Death," and the Fairfield Four on "Lonesome Valley." The emotional purity and grit of this soundtrack will take the buildup of the plaque of modern living and peel it right off."~~Don Thomason
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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"...there is not one weak track on this CD, period. Not one. There are highlights, to be sure, but the greatest aspect of this soundtrack might be that the diverse array of recordings and styles presents the listener with something new to appreciate every time they play the CD. " ~~Scott Johnson
“John Hartford became a powerful voice for his twin muses, the river and its music.”
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- I had never heard of John Hartford before now. Cool lens
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- I recently saw (BBC TV) a concert he compered and performed in - master of his music and of the audience. Must have been fairly close to the end of his playing days - a cruel loss to him.
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- Very nice lens, thank you. I first saw John on the documentary 'Songs of the Civil War', a 'sequel' to Ken Burns's documentary series on the Civil War where he sang 'Lorena'.
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- John Hartford still the legend
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Aereo-Plain
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes
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Following years of ups and downs at RCA, John Hartford moved to Warner Brothers in 1971. Working with fiddler Vassar Clements, guitarist Norman Blake, and Dobro player Tut Taylor, Hartford found his creative muse on the landmark progressive bluegrass album Aereo-Plain, issued in 1972. Hartford's quirky humor was the focus, but his deep love for traditional music served as a framework. This entrancing, occasionally off-center collection assembles selected demos, alternate takes, and unreleased material (including Taylor and Blake instrumentals) from those sessions. While he credibly tackled oldies such as "Where the Old Red River Flows" and Jimmie Skinner's "Doin' My Time," Hartford's originals made the difference. "Don't Ever Take Your Eyes off the Game, Babe," "Howard Hughes Blues," and "Strange Old Man" were good enough for release at the time. His fearlessness even extended to such obvious duds as the inane pun ditty "Emanuel Cant" and the ponderous "Blame It on Joann." However, hearing a take of "Boogie," his famous guttural chant from Aereo-Plain, dissolve into coughing and laughter can't help but bring a smile. --Rich Kienzle [Amazon Review]
Natural to Be Gone
Natural to Be Gone 1967-1970
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Explores the roots of alt-country and bluegrass pioneer John Hartford. Includes his original version of the self-penned Gentle on my Mind, later a US Top 40 hit for Glen Campbell and also covered by Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. Featuring musical contributions from Buddy Emmons (steel guitar) and James Burton (dobro, guitar) and production duties by Felton Jarvis and Rick Jarrard. 28 tracks, 78 minutes of music, deluxe color booklet, detailed liner notes. Raven Records/Australia 2002 release. [Amazon Review]
