Me Oh My How the Time Does Fly

John Hartford - Me Oh My How the Time Does Fly

Me Oh My How the Time Does Fly
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Artist: John Hartford
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-09-29
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
  1. Skippin' in the Mississippi Dew
  2. The Julia Belle Swain
  3. Natchez Whistle
  4. I Would Not Be Here
  5. Miss Ferris
  6. Bear Creek Hop
  7. Cukoo's Nest
  8. Boogie
  9. Gum Tree Canoe
  10. Slumberin' on the Cumberland
  11. Gentle on My Mind
  12. In Tall Buildings
  13. Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's Anymore
  14. On Christmas Eve
  15. Way Down the River Road
  16. Let Him Go On, Mama
  17. Good Old Electric Washing Machine
  18. I'm Still Here

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Free Music Review: More Than an Hour's Worth of John Hartford Magic
Hit: 5 Stars

This is as much a eulogy for one of my favorite artists--he died June 4--as it is a recommendation of this Flying Fish anthology. John Hartford was a true Renaissance man. He was a songwriter, accomplished musician (banjo, fiddle, guitar), author ("Steamboat in a Cornfield") and riverboat pilot. He was also unmoved by musical trends that could have made him a household name back when Glen Campbell made Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" a country and pop hit. But the money from that song--his obituary said it has been played on the radio six million times--provided Hartford with the financial security to forsake mainstream success and pursue his own muse.

So what Hartford did for more than thirty years was release more than a dozen quirky albums that were, if nothing else, honest reflections of a wonderful storyteller. This collection touches bases with nearly every album--nine in all--that Hartford recorded for Flying Fish beginning with 1976's Mark Twang through 1984's Gum Tree Canoe. [The only album not represented is 1972's Morning Bugle, which is now available on Rounder. The version of "Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's Anymore" is a live recording from 1977's The Festival Tapes where Hartford is backed by the Newgrass Revival.]

Hartford wrote fourteen of the tracks here and co-wrote another two. [The only two non-originals are "Gum Tree Canoe" and "Bear Creek Hop."] The list of musicians reads like a bluegrass Who's Who: Benny Martin, Buddy Emmons, Doug and Rodney Dillard, Mac Wiseman, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor, Roy Husky--the list goes on and on. For the most part the song selection steers away from his overtly off-beat numbers, except for "Boogie" and the nostalgic "Good Old Elctric Washing Machine-circa 1943," where he does an admirable washing machine impression. Additional highlights include "Skippin' in the Mississippi Dew" and his own version of "Gentle on My Mind."

At 18 tracks and sixty-four minutes this is a marvelous collection from perhaps his most fertile period. I already owned nearly a dozen albums on vinyl, but this and 1971's Aereo-Plain made my CD upgrade list.

The closing track, "I'm Still Here," now takes on a new meaning. Mark Twain once wrote, "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." While I will miss John Hartford the artist, I will continue to savor his music. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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This 18-song compilation serves as a useful introduction to John Hartford's quirky, modern old-time music. Culled from his Flying Fish period (1976-87), the set includes solo banjo and fiddle forays, odes to his beloved riverboats (and the fifth-grade teacher who turned him on to them), picking sessions with Nashville's top men (Buddy Emmons, Sam Bush, Bennie Martin, Roy Husky Jr., and more), laments for days gone by, and even a reading of "Gentle on My Mind"--the hit that facilitated this entire off-kilter musical vision. Whether through a nifty instrumental turn, a poignant lyric, or an annoying novelty tune, Hartford knows how to strike a nerve. --Marc Greilsamer

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