John Hartford Morning Bugle (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.)

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John Hartford: Morning Bugle (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.)

(Real Gone Music) 24 tracks, colored vinyl in forest green with insert with liner notes by Skip Heller, limited edition of 1500 copies

The two albums multi-instrumentalist and songwriter John Hartford recorded for Warner Bros. in the early '70s, Aereo-Plain and Morning Bugle, shook the bluegrass genre to its foundations, adding a modern, irreverent sensibility and fresh repertoire to the traditional style. We've already reissued Aereo-Plain (twice) on LP, but we waited with Morning Bugle because we had something special up our sleeve - namely the original session tapes! This means that not only do you get (with the full consent of the Hartford estate) a new remix and remaster of the original albumâ, which even Hartford devotees admit never sounded as good production-wiseâ, but also a whole disk of unreleased tracks! Hartford researcher Skip Heller provides liner notes on this monumental find on the enclosed insert.

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Interpret: John Hartford
Album titlle: Morning Bugle (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.)
Genre Country
Label Real Gone Music
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Edition 2 Record Store Day Edition
EAN: 0848064016632
weight in Kg 0.4

Hartford, John - Morning Bugle (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 1
01	Streetcar	John Hartford
02	Nobody Eats at Linebaugh’s Anymore	John Hartford
03	Howard Hughes’ Blues	John Hartford
04	All Fall Down	John Hartford
05	On the Road	John Hartford
06	Morning Bugle	John Hartford
07	Old Joe Clark	John Hartford
08	My Rag	John Hartford
09	Late Last Night When My Willie Comes Home	John Hartford
10	Got No Place to Go	John Hartford
11	Bye Bye	John Hartford

Hartford, John - Morning Bugle (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 2
01	Talkback Mic (“that’s even slicker”)	John Hartford
02	Flower Power Died	John Hartford
03	Back Up and Push	John Hartford
04	Leaving Lap Farewell	John Hartford
05	Morning Bugle (Alternate Take)	John Hartford
06	My Rag (Alternate Take)	John Hartford
07	Yesterday Morning	John Hartford
08	Dandelion Lane	John Hartford
09	Airport Floor	John Hartford
10	More Like Him	John Hartford
11	Eight More Miles to Louisville	John Hartford
12	Chatter (“you know who called me?”)	John Hartford
13	Sittin’ on Top of the World	John Hartford

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"John Hartford"

John Hartford

Gentle On My Mind

John Hartford

Gentle On My Mind

(John Hartford)

recorded February 3, 1967 (14:00-17:00) RCA Victor Studio, 806 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee; Producer: Felton Jarvis

with John Hartford: vocal/guitar; Norbert Putmam: bass/leader; Jerry K. Carrigan: drums

RCA 47-9175

master UWA4-2132

Sometimes a songwriter plugs into the zeitgeist of an era. John Hartford's original version of Gentle On My Mind was released in April 1967 just as thousands of college kids were flocking to San Francisco instead of more common Spring Break destinations. The Aquarian age had dawned, and needed songs to capture its quintessence. Gentle On My Mind reflected a generation back at itself, a generation trying to escape the nine-to-five grind and suburban mindset of its predecessors. John Hartford (born Harford in New York on December 30, 1937) grew up in affluent circumstances in St. Louis. After finishing university, he became a dee-jay and banjo player and began writing songs during an early morning radio shift. "When John came to me with the first tape of his songs, I couldn't believe what I was hearing," said Chuck Glaser, who signed Hartford to Glaser Brothers publishing. In 1964, Jimmy Payne (who recorded the original version of What Does It Take To Keep A Woman Like You Satisfied) was the first to record one of Hartford’s songs, and that was sufficient encouragement for Hartford to move to Nashville. Chet Atkins had let Roger Miller go, and saw Hartford as a replacement. It was Atkins who insisted that John Harford become Hartford. The first LP sank without a trace.

"John and I were living in a mobile home on Lebanon Pike in Nashville," said John's ex-wife, Betty. "My mother babysat our son, Jamie, one night so we could go see 'Dr. Zhivago.' When we came home, John said, 'I need to go write down a few things.' He was in the second bedroom about thirty minutes while I was putting Jamie to bed. He came out with his guitar, and said, 'Let me play you this.' I think it was the relationship between Dr. Zhivago and Julie Christie's character, Lara, that inspired him." John Hartford: "Everyone's made a whole lot out of me going to see 'Dr. Zhivago' the night I wrote it. I know it gave me a feeling that caused me to start writing, but as far as saying it came from that, I don't know. It just came from experience. While I was writing it, if I had any idea that was going to be a hit, it probably would have come out differently and it wouldn't have been a hit. It just came real fast, a blaze, a blur." Betty Harford: "There was that line about 'crying to your mother 'cause she turned you were gone.' I said, 'Is that me?' He said the right things, but we were divorced a few years later so I'm not sure. He said the song was a 'word movie.' No chorus. I worked for the Glaser Brothers' publishing company as an administrative assistant. John was a staff writer for the Glasers and he was a dee-jay on WSIX. He made a quick demo of 'Gentle On My Mind' right after he wrote it. He played it for Chuck Glaser and they did a little better demo and Chuck took it over to Chet Atkins."

The Glasers pitched Gentle On My Mind to Johnny Cash, who wasn't interested. A&R guys said that it was about shacking up, and they wouldn't touch it, and so Hartford recorded it himself. The limp backing couldn't undermine the song's blithe spirit. Most country songs could be memorized after a few spins; Gentle On My Mind could not. Only its essence stayed with you. Hartford's record stalled at #60 on the country charts, but out in Los Angeles it reached the ears of Glen Campbell. Some minor hits notwithstanding, few outside the Los Angeles studio scene knew of him. "The song had such a freshness of spirit," he wrote later. "It was an essay on life as I viewed it then." Campbell's record reached #30 on the country charts and #62 on the pop charts, but sold far better than those lowly peaks suggest. Hartford's record won a Grammy for Best Folk Performance and Campbell's LP won for Album Of The Year. Hartford never scored another hit. He became a scholar of Mississippi River lore and a grand old man of the banjo, saying once, "A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo."

- Colin Escott -

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1967

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