Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: open mike
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:08 AM

what do you mean, wizzy?
what does Larry Sparks have to do with John Hartford?

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:22 AM

Why'd nobody tell me bout Larry Sparks

Why'd nobody tell me bout Dave van Ronk

Etc

~S~

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 02:47 PM

Isn't it great to discover people like that when you thought you'd seen it all?

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: MissouriMud
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 03:45 PM

Listen to John playing and singing his Delta Queen Waltz on youtube - it is wonderful.   

John's backup band - now going under the title The John Hartford Stringband - has recently released a cd of their versions of some of Johns best tunes and songs. The cd was nominated for a Grammy. It really sounds like John is in there with them.   Great musicians in their own right they are joined by some amazing guests on the cd.

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 05:24 PM

Get hold of the documentary Down from the Mountain - the concert linked with "Oh Brother, where art thou", with John Hartford hosting it, a year before he died, his last filmed\appearance.

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: Guernsey Pete
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:47 PM

Hey, it wasn't THAT long ago he went, Bobart.
Not 15 years.
But I certainly remember him at Cambridge Folk Festival in the early '70s'.
Amazing.

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 07:44 AM

"Get hold of the documentary Down from the Mountain - the concert linked with "Oh Brother, where art thou", with John Hartford hosting it, a year before he died, his last filmed\appearance. "

It's on Sky Arts 1 again at 15.20 today!

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: PHJim
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 02:20 AM

I heard somewhere, but don't recall where or how reliable it was, that John modeled his stage attire during the last part of his career after Paul Newman's bicycle scene (Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head) in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Anyone else ever heard this?

Subject: RE: Why'd nobody tell me bout John Hartford?
From: GUEST,jeff
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 11:31 PM

Would be more inclined to think he modeled it after Chaplin's 'The Little Tramp'. That being said I'd be interested in having confirmation on that as well. Whenever I'd see a poster or an ad for one of his shows the silhouette of the bowler hat tilted, fiddling and clogging character was used frequently.