Turn Your Radio On: John Hartford
This is from his 1971 album Aero-Plain.
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August 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm
yousendit link:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1190965621/a6e9f8461484de8b133a52ac0d2e4a84?cid=tx-02002207350200000000&s=19104
August 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Hartford was too country for me but I did play this song on my radio show as it was kinda funny and the rockers who tuned in never minded.
August 9, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Z&Me,
I agree that at times he was too country. The only songs of his I have are like this one-they’d pass for rock in a pinch!
August 9, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Not rock at all; unless the Chuckwagon Gang was being prescient.
Cheers
August 9, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Minicapt,
Not rock so much as folk, but I wanted to make the rock people happy!
August 9, 2011 at 9:30 pm
He does a pretty decent job on this song considering the benchmark version is done by the likes of the Blackwood Brothers. Albert Brumley was the author of many wonderful gospel songs and coincidentally trained at Hartford Musical Institute.
August 9, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Spaceman,
I have to admit I don’t know the Blackwood Brothers, but I’ll remedy that quickly.
I didn’t know who has authored this-thanks!
August 9, 2011 at 11:20 pm
I first came to this one via Ray Stevens, who had a hit with it around 1972, and he got his arrangement from the Chuck Wagon Gang, who were no slouches.
But Mr. John’s version is better.
August 9, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Marchbanks,
I haven’t ever heard Ray’s version of this, and now I’m curious.
I am a sometimes yes, sometimes no John fan, but I like this song as much as any of his.
August 10, 2011 at 1:09 pm
If you like the ‘rock’ end of Hartford, try his album “Permanent Wave”, which features Hartford with Doug and Rodney Dillard of The Dillards. It was released in 1981. I used to just lift and drop the needle over and over again to hear ‘Reggae Woman” repeatedly…
Track listing
1. “Break It to Me Gently” (Rodney Dillard) – 3:15
2. “That’ll Be the Day” (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 2:21
3. “Blue Morning” (R. Dillard) – 2:50
4. “The Same Thing” (Sylverster “Sly Stone” Stewart) – 3:38
5. “Yakety Yak” (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:38
6. “Something’s Wrong” (Gene Clark, Doug Dillard) – 2:47
7. “Boogie on Reggae Woman” (Stevie Wonder) – 5:36
8. “Country Boy Rock & Roll” (Don Reno) – 2:01
9. “No Beer in Heaven” (Traditional) – 3:17
August 10, 2011 at 11:34 pm
J,
That’s my favorite Hartford part.
I went looking all over and finally found a combination re-release of this album with Glitter Grass. I couldn’t find it anywhere by itself. I have to convert it to amp3’s so I’ll let you know-thanks!
August 10, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Of course Albert Brumley was not one of the Blackwoods. But he is perhaps the most the most extraordinary and beloved author of gospel music in the 20th century.
http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/43rd-annual-albert-e-brumley-memorial-gospel-sing-august-3-6-2011
August 10, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Spaceman,
I understood your comment, that he was the lyricist of the song. I went to the link and was amazed at the songs he wrote. I knew so many of them yet i hadn’t known him/