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fezo · 07-24-2010, 09:47 PM

Oh, I miss John Hartford. Met him maybe a couple of times - the best being in 1974 when he played the Rutgers student center the year after I graduated. I zipped down from work and caught him going in to set up. He was great to talk to and I asked about this one song I'd heard him play but wasn't on a record at the time (Tall Buildings). He dictated the words to me as I wrote them down on a napkin and helped by handing him things setting up. He did the song in the show after saying he'd do just that so I could get the chords all straight.

Other than the song I remember how pleased he was that he'd gotten to the point where the royalties from Gentle on my Mind gave him all the income he needed to be able to just do what he wanted to do. His idea of what he wanted to do was go around playing and (at the time) going to river pilot school.

07-24-2010, 09:47 PM	#5
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	Re: Jingles Oh, I miss John Hartford. Met him maybe a couple of times - the best being in 1974 when he played the Rutgers student center the year after I graduated. I zipped down from work and caught him going in to set up. He was great to talk to and I asked about this one song I'd heard him play but wasn't on a record at the time (Tall Buildings). He dictated the words to me as I wrote them down on a napkin and helped by handing him things setting up. He did the song in the show after saying he'd do just that so I could get the chords all straight. Other than the song I remember how pleased he was that he'd gotten to the point where the royalties from Gentle on my Mind gave him all the income he needed to be able to just do what he wanted to do. His idea of what he wanted to do was go around playing and (at the time) going to river pilot school.