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Your browser does not support the audio element. Joseph's Dream John Hartford. Copy the following link to share it Copy. You are currently listening to samples. Joseph's Dream. See More. Nevermind Nirvana. Back To Black Amy Winehouse. Steamboat Whistle Blues John Hartford. Aereo-Plain John Hartford. Morning Bugle John Hartford. I remember noticing that the people gathered around the table were all watching him too. When he finished he put his pen away and looked at the poster a second or two, picked it up and handed it to me and smiled again.

He was a special guy for sure. It all evolves. I think records really are photographs of the artist and the song at that point in their development. The songs I do on my program divide up into three categories. After a year of practicing and developing this skill, it became a signature aspect of his shows. When I get on stage with a band, I tend to put myself into a band role.

Hitting the road with his second spouse and merchandise manager Marie and one or two bus drivers. John aimed for balance between touring and being home. Carlin relished the freedom he gave the ensemble. Figure out something to do. Old- time music and the fiddle and the banjo is very much river music going all the way back to the flatboat days. The old flatboats and keel boats and raft boats that floated the river carried a fiddler as part of the crew for morale and to ease the workload.

A fiddle tune and a little bit of whiskey could keep a man on the pole for a long time. As a kid he dreamed of piloting steamboats. At fifteen, he lied about his age to get hired as a night watchman on the Delta Queen.

That gig carried the additional benefit of time to practice playing his five-string. In he began a tradition of spending about ten days each month of the summer working on the Julia Belle Swain out of Peoria, Illinois. What we do is the first day I stay in the pilot house all day, because these are two day trips.

That night we stay at the Starved Rock State Park lodge. We usually have a jam session at the lodge, and I play that night. The next day on the way back I… sit in with the house band and do a couple of numbers. The song also changed everything for Campbell, at the time best known as a great session guitarist and a part-time member of the Beach Boys. He told me he wrote 'Gentle on My Mind' after he had watched Dr. He said it went against every rule that could be a rule in music. It didn't have a chorus, it had a banjo on it, and it was four minutes long.

Words upon words spill out, yet a lovely melody is unhampered by the chatter, and the lyrics were a beacon for new-era songwriters like Kristofferson and Tom T. John moved his family to Los Angeles in Pretty heady stuff. I would say it was quite disruptive.

It was very strong before that song did what it did…. Then it really went into overdrive. Since Williams had worked out so well in that role, Tommy Smothers assumed John, also being a musician he dug, also could. Nor did John have fond memories either, saying that writing amounted to a group of comedians sitting around a table, smoking and drinking, trying out jokes on each other. After making his debut network television appearance at the Grammys, Hartford appeared on thirteen episodes of various incarnations of The Smothers Brothers Show between and and twenty-one times on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.

His other television and movie credits included ten episodes of Hee-Haw, a half dozen each for the David Frost show and the Joey Bishop Show, a couple of Playboy After Dark outings, and hosting an episode of Hollywood Palace. John served as host an ephemeral variety program called Something Else, sponsored by the American Dairy Association As their spokesman, John did TV spots promoting milk.

The latter seemed to be the ultimate deal breaker for his first wife Betty, left at home with two children while John partied. They played a bluegrass set in tribute to Bill Monroe accompanied by his future collaborators Norman Blake and Vassar Clements. Thus started the path back to folk, bluegrass, and old-time music. At Philadelphia Folk Festival August , however, Hartford showed up with none of his future collaborators.

His backing ensemble played string guitar, drums, and bass. The recorded performances capture his music midway the old sound and his developing progressive bluegrass approach. From there The Philadelphia material is mixed. It would not appear until six years later on Mark Twang. Interestingly the arrangements are different from one set to the next, much closer to bluegrass in the afternoon, then to folk rock the next evening.

A number of songs appear in both sets, suggesting he either had not spent much time developing material his band knew or that he was simply experimenting. Aereo Plain brought together traditional bluegrass, progressive influences, old songs, and his admittedly weird songs.

It helping spawn the new-grass movement by demonstrating how music could be innovative while still sounding like bluegrass. Philadelphia may have been the festival where he met David Bromberg and a friendship quickly formed through almost non-stop playing music together. John soon asked Bromberg to produce his next album. I basically produced it in a vacuum. I had nobody to consult with. In he was very certain why Aereo-Plain proved so influential: What was going on was, we were discarding some of the rules.

Truthfully, it needed something. Bluegrass was as dead as a mackerel. He felt like the subconscious mind knows the right thing to do in the right situation. And if you can tap into it, you get better performances. And Vassar Clements was, like, the guru of that. He played totally off his subconscious. It was so different that it still stands. People listen to it and play the music.