where can i find john hartford bootlegs?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

Where do I find John Hartford bootlegs?
I bet there are some great gigs floating around.

― ian, Friday, 23 October 2009 21:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

About 10 of them on dimeadozen.org.

― svend, Friday, 23 October 2009 21:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

John Hartford.
Becoming a favorite.

― ian, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

do you have any bootlegs?

― open the door, there's a bag on fire (stevie), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

no, i never downloaded the ones that got linked to upthread. but i should... especially before i go home for the week; can't bring rekkerds on the bus.

― ian, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

bt.etree.org has

"John Hartford collection - 1970 to 1990: 16 cherry-picked shows"

Size 6.324 GB

but no ratio rqmts afaik.

― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 00:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

just bought IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOT

my girlfriend is a big fan, i like it but find a lot of it too new-grass-y for my tastes.

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

yikes, 6.324 gigs! that would take forever.
i just want a nice live version of "first girl i loved" at the moment.

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

― President Keyes, Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

saw Van Dyke Parks last Sunday ... he covered a John Hartford song and spoke glowingly about him

― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

i believe it. everyone seems to have loved the guy.
btw, the song in that video is not on the album pictured. it's on a hartford w/ the dillard record.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

I may have mentioned this in some other thread (or not?) but my late brother, who suffered from mental illness, fell in love with my copy of "Aereo-plain." Like, he "heard" revelatory (hallucinatory) things when listening to that record. Anyway, he once wrote a fan letter to John, and John sent the most lovely, handwritten letter back, encouraging my brother to keep learning guitar, and not let depression get him down. He and his wife continued to send Christmas cards to my brother each year. What a beautiful guy.

― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

gots to admit, this guy (like most of his "newgrass" cousins) is too "bouncy" and "clever" for me. though some of his songs are deathless, i guess.

― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

man, john can be a lil goofy but he's all-time great for me. "aero-plain" especially, but there are gems on pretty much all of his records.

(still the only john hartford thread on ilx)

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

sorry, "aereo-plain"

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I may have mentioned this in some other thread (or not?) but my late brother, who suffered from mental illness, fell in love with my copy of "Aereo-plain." Like, he "heard" revelatory (hallucinatory) things when listening to that record. Anyway, he once wrote a fan letter to John, and John sent the most lovely, handwritten letter back, encouraging my brother to keep learning guitar, and not let depression get him down. He and his wife continued to send Christmas cards to my brother each year. What a beautiful guy.

― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, October 5, 2010 3:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ this is the best story btw.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

His success on the Smothers Brothers series was enough that Hartford was offered the lead role in a TV detective series but he turned it down to move back to Nashville and concentrate on his music ... Hartford was also the author of Steamboat in a Cornfield, a children's book that recounts the true story of the Ohio River steamboat The Virginia and its beaching in a cornfield.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

He sketched the cover art for some of his mid-career albums, drawing with both hands simultaneously.

love
this
guy

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

What's the general consensus re: early RCA albums vs. later indie records?

― Lee626, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

my faves are the sort of mid-period.. Aereoplain, Morning Bugle. The earlier stuff I find a bit overproduced and the later stuff sometimes a bit silly, but I DO love records like Mark Twang and Nobody Knows What You Do..

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWBkWsRfXs0

― and yet (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:21 (6 months ago) Permalink

― and yet (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:21 (6 months ago) Permalink

to answer the threadstarter's question:

http://thespps.org/music/

scroll down to "hartford" and you can download dozens of John Hartford live sets

― and yet (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:34 (6 months ago) Permalink

oh, also:

http://realgonemusic.enstore.com/item/john-hartford-2cd-set

John Hartford: Aereo-Plain / Morning Bugle–The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (2-CD Set)

Available Dec. 4, 2012. Pre-Order Now!

Real Gone Music is proud to announce the release of Aereo-Plain/Morning Bugle—the Complete Warner Bros. Recordings, a two-CD, 35-track set that devotes a CD to each of these landmark albums and tacks on four unreleased tracks from each album session for a total of eight unreleased tracks! Liner notes are by Hartford scholar Andrew Vaughan, and the Hartford family has generously contributed photos from John’s private collection. This collection is destined to be one of this year’s most talked-about country/bluegrass releases—it’s an essential addition to any library of modern American music.

― and yet (unregistered), Thursday, 15 November 2012 03:17 (6 months ago) Permalink