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Hartford's 1971 album with Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor and Randy Scruggs.
John Hartford & Mark Howard, 1971

Hartford played banjo, guitar, fiddle and sang, with Norman Blake on guitar and mandolin, Vassar Clements on fiddle, cello and viola, Tut Taylor on Dobro and Randy Scruggs on electric bass. Warren Dewey and Claude Hill engineered, and Sam Bush wrote the liner notes; Bush said without it there would be no newgrass music. David Bromberg recalled an hour and a half of "Sally Goodin" in the sessions, and the tapes ran to over eighty reels. It reached 193 on the Billboard 200. AllMusic's Ronnie Lankford gave it four and a half stars, calling it an essential album for any fan, and Robert Christgau a B-plus. The 2002 Rounder set Steam Powered Aereo-Takes collects outtakes.

Track listing

  1. Turn Your Radio On1:22
  2. Steamboat Whistle Blues3:23
  3. Back in the Goodle Days3:34
  4. Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie2:43
  5. Boogie1:42
  6. First Girl I Loved4:35
  7. Presbyterian Guitar2:04
  8. With a Vamp in the Middle3:25
  9. Symphony Hall Rag2:48
  10. Because of You1:02
  11. Steam Powered Aereo Plane3:43
  12. Holding1:47
  13. Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry3:28
  14. Leather Britches1:58
  15. Station Break0:13
  16. Turn Your Radio On (reprise)2:16

More from John Hartford & Mark Howard

Cadillac Rag (1991)

Sources

  1. Aereo-Plain, Wikipedia
  2. Steam Powered Aereo-Takes, Wikipedia