Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. You Don't Have to Do That 2. Didn't Want to Be Forgotten 3. In Tall Buildings 4. John McLaughlin 5. Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana 6. False Hearted Tenor Waltz, The 7. Joseph's Dream 8. Down 9. Golden Globe Award, The 10. Sly Feel 11. Somewhere My Love (We'll Meet Again Sweet Heart) 12. Nobody Knows What You Do
| | Details | | Producer: | Mike Melford | | Distributor: | Bayside Record Dist. | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: John Hartford (vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddle); Jimmy Colvard (electric & flat top guitar); Benny Martin (guitar, fiddle, background vocals); Buddy Emmons (steel guitar, dobro); Dale Sellers (electric guitar); Sam Bush (mandolin, background vocals); David Briggs (piano); Dalton Dillingham, Roy Husky Jr. (bass); Kenny Malone (drums). Recorded at the Sound Shop, Nashville, Tennessee in 1975. Hartford is best known as the author of the Glen Campbell hit "Gentle on My Mind," but to judge him by that sentimental ballad would do him a disservice. As this 1975 outing makes plain, Hartford's musical vision contains a large helping of loopy humor tinged with absurdism and occasionally leaning toward the off-color. The sound here is largely a traditional one, mixing folk, bluegrass, and country, utilizing plenty of fine picking from such hotshots as mandolinist Sam Bush and pedal steel wizard Buddy Emmons, and from Hartford himself on guitar and banjo. With a voice on the humble side of homespun, it's Hartford's sense of humor that makes NOBODY KNOWS so infectious. Whether he's exploiting his lack of vocal range on "False Hearted Tenor Waltz," promoting cannabis for the elderly on "Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana," or rhapsodizing about sizable mammaries on "The Golden Globe Awards," Hartford's good-natured pokes to the ribs make this a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
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