Song of the Day - Monday February 19, 2007

Old Joe Clark - John Hartford

Click on the song title above to listen. You may want to minimize the player window so you can read the information I have provided below as you listen.

 

I'll update you if find more information about this set. I know this song came from a venue in the state of Washington called Bumbleshoot. This show has never been released to the public for trading. It was provided to me by someone who lives up in the state of Washington. He was given a reel to reel tape from a radio station. That's all the information I have about it.

 

For those of you new to John's music, you might not know this song is from John's 2nd Aereo-Plane band CD recording - "Morning Bugle". Sorry to say that it is no longer in print. If you're lucky & willing to be ripped off, you might find a copy of it being on eBay or Amazon for around $100. It's ashamed that who ever owns the copy write to this CD along with many others, don't realize the demand there is for his out of print CDs. There is no doubt that this song as done by John is high on the list of my favorite recordings of John.

 

Yeah !!! - listen to that long neck low tuned banjer on this tune. Anybody know which banjo he used for this tune or which one it might be for this set? Also, I clearly heard him say "environment record" in the words to this song. Someone on his dotcom site was trying to figure out what those words were. I think this live version might be clearer than on the CD.

 

John, if you're reading this. I promise I will get the tape back to you soon.

 

This whole show is terrific and I will post more tunes from it soon. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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