John Hotze & Mike Borrello - just a couple old farts with a great passion for music as we cover an old John Hartford tune

There are a few of John's CD's, that the words "Mellow John", come to my head.

I guess I'm just a sentimental old fart but this CD is one of my favorites of John's.

Dixe is from "Goin Back To Dixie"  -  Small Dog SD-292 - 1992

Mike & loaded my 17' shallow water keel Grumman canoe on my car and headed for Nashville three years ago this June. I put big lettering on the side of the canoe - "Slumberin' On The Cumberland". You might catch a glimpse of us in the YouTube video I embedded further down on this page. We floated the Cumberland River from Neely's Bend to a takeout, just across the river from John's old house. This was to celebrate John's life on the fifth anniversary of his passing.

I set the tripod up to shoot us just foolin' around together on Phil Harris's front porch before the bands started showing up. The audio on this is something Mike and I had recorded a long time ago as an Internet project. I assembled it working with files we exchanged over the Internet. We never had even met one on one when we did this project.  I think Mike did the first track and I did the best I could to listen and overlay my part with his. Not the best but I was just learning this stuff back than.

Don't forget, if you left double click anywhere on the video you can view it full screen. At least with IE.  I haven't tested it with other browsers.