John Hartford - Learning To Smile -02 Learning To Smile
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Shot in a studio with TV cameras, and no audience, John sings many favorites on this video.
Never released on DVD, and no longer produced on VHS, this OOP video is getting harder to find.
I was lucky enough to obtain a sealed copy and encode off the 1st play of the tape.
So missed! I had the good fortune of seeing John perform 4 times. He was always amazing! More importantly, he didn't care just how long his show would go for.
Many artists get up and do two 40 minute sets with 20 minute intermissions.
If you are lucky, they may come back for another two or three song encore.
Not John though. Oft times (and the 4 shows I went to) he would come back for another 45 minutes to an hour and 30 minutes.
It wasn't about the money and his time.
It was about sharing the pure enjoyment of the music.
Truly one of the Greatest!!!
I always have a smile on my face when ever I hear the great Hartford.
just like the old bluesmen, one instrument, no stinking band to muddy up the sound, what talent.
The fiddle he is playing is on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The headstock features a carved bust of John himself.
On the back of the fiddle it features a mural of a steamboat with the words " A boy hardly-haired out understands this best: Nothing is real but the river and all else is sham." around the edges.
I, a 18 yo, got to see Mr Hartford live 2 years before he died. He and the band played The Hokey Pokey live at the Anchorage Alaska Discovery theater.
I remember seeing Hartford in 1970 in Knoxville where he not only clogged on the amplified plywood sheet but had a side pedal he could hit which converted the plywood to a tuned "foot piano" where he could tap out the melody of the tune he was playing (and singing) but have never found a recoding or even mention of this added talent and technology,
A sad loss, but what a legacy these videos are. Thanks.
What a treasure this man was!
Thanks! My dad loved watching Hartford play and soft shuffle.
I really love john Hartford.He is so talented, he's a very impressive man. He will definitely be missed!I love how he could play the banjo and tap dance at the same time!
And Sing😇
And sing his own creations.
This makes me. So. Happy.
Saw JH at a rock festival in, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania in maybe 1976.
just amazing!!!
i could cry when i see this!
Bless you.
What a classic. He was "the man".
He said Scruggs changed his life. Hartford made bluegrass appealing to me as a teenager. He was my introduction to river music. A sweet & honest soul.
john you left to soon really brilliant
Last of a kind....
surely my all time favorite! Everything he has ever done has had an impact on my life! I only found out about him in 2000 and he brought me back to my roots in a major way!
this is absolutely great!
Love the PBS show and the song is great.
Just...Fantastic:)
Infectious!
Lucky #19 comment, ...have had to learn to smile over 19 times..., in my life-=+
Wrong, just kidding as I remember seeing one of his visits/events off a river boat on the landing in Ashland among children while he viewed a small crowd. His first passion was boating! 🍀
He really was a total geez!!! Thanks john!
delightful
Old time minstrel for sure.
great.. :)
Fuck yeah
these videos have some 30000 views? I bet I've watched it 4000 tomes myself :-)
I'll burn you some & drop them by the Trap some night
Same. :)
When was this video made? 1980s?
How can I get ahold of the full length source of this?
John, have you got a date on Hartford's recording of this video? I've looked a bit and can't find it.
Recorded on the night of the Full Moon, February 20th, 1989
WSMV-TV Nashville, TN
Director: Tina Young
@@johnny85er Thank you!
@@johnny85er And thanks so much for posting the contents of that VHS!!
I wish I had more feet to tap.
A great song but the performance is somewhat weird - damped strummed violin with tap dance (????).
Is it an obscure reference to Chaplinesque comedy and Chaplin's composition "Smile"?
no, the tap dancing while playing is what John Hartford was known for, It was part of his routine.
Sorry you are just now seeing it for the 1st time
There is nothing weird at all about it. Did you just want to cut someone down? Do you feel big now?