Song of the Day - Friday March 9, 2007

Bumbleshoot version - Old Joe Clark - John Hartford

Morning Bugle version - Old Joe Clark - John Hartford

Below is yet another version that I copied from the SPPS server

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.

Here is a contribution recently posted on the Yahoo GoodleDays forum by Joel Grover. Pull out your guitar or banjo and try them out.

"Old Joe Clark"

FIRST PART C / G

SECOND PART

F Am Dm F Bb F G C
F Am Dm F Bb F G A Dm G

and then back to C/G part
 

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.

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