Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 Towboat River (02:01)
02 Tall Tall Grass (02:12)
03 Front Porch (02:35)
04 Eve of My Multiplication (01:50)
05 California Earthquake (02:16)
06 Left Handed Woman (01:55)
07 George (02:50)
08 Run (01:55)
09 This Eve of Parting (02:34)
10 Self Made Man (02:44)
11 Minus the Woman (03:09)
12 Like Unto a Mockingbird (02:54)
13 Grownup Man (01:49)
14 Gentle on My Mind (03:02)
15 Steam Powered Aereo Plain (00:37)
16 Station Break (01:51)
17 Ice Cold Love (02:11)
18 Matthew 24 (03:12)
19 Greensleeves (02:29)
20 Corrina (02:05)
21 Greenback Dollar (02:51)
22 Jesus Loves Everybody (02:23)
23 I Forgot to Forget (02:58)
24 The Way Is Narrow (02:36)
25 Short Life of Trouble (02:30)
26 That Great Day Is Coming (02:37)
27 When I Feel the Hand of My Saviour (01:28)
[Credits]
John Hartford (banjo/fiddle/vocals)
Producer: Gordon Anderson and Skip Heller, Designer: John Sellards, Engineer: Kevin Chubirka
[Notes]
Though he was a prolific recording artist, songwriter, sideman, and producer, Grammy-winner John Hartford's career can't be summed up on a single disc; it would take a multi-volume box set to accomplish that. Initial and lasting fame was granted him for penning "Gentle on My Mind," resulting in his placement as Glen Campbell's banjo-playing sidekick on the singer's weekly television program for four years. But Hartford's founding role in the creation of "newgrass" on 1971's brilliant Aereo-Plain a few years later won him notice because the album subsequently influenced three generations of musicians. Then there are his dozens of session appearances on seminal recordings by the Byrds, James Taylor, Delaney and Bonnie, Rhonda Vincent, Guthrie Thomas, Benny Martin, David Bromberg, Nanci Griffith, Johnny Cash, and David Allan Coe, to name a few, that also ensure his place in musical history. Much of his wonderfully eclectic catalog has been reissued, including an album of rare Aereo-Plain outtakes entitled Steam Powered Aereo-Takes. All said, though, there hasn't yet been a document that delved deeply into Hartford's early career for the sole purpose of revealing that, although an artist in constant evolution, his music remained rooted in the folk music, river songs, and primal bluegrass he discovered as a youth. Until now, that is. -- AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
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