John Hartford – Morning Bugle 2LP Coloured Vinyl

John Hartford – Morning Bugle

The two albums multi-instrumentalist/songwriter John Hartford cut for Warner Bros. in the early ‘70s, Aereo-Plain and Morning Bugle, shook the bluegrass genre to the core, adding a modern, irreverent sensibility and fresh repertoire to the tradition-bound style. We have already (twice) reissued Aereo-Plain on LP, but we waited on Morning Bugle because we had something special up our sleeve—namely, the original session tapes! Which means that not only are you getting (with the full consent of the Hartford estate) a new remix and remaster of the original album—which even Hartford devotees admit never sounded that good on the production side of things—but an entire disc of unreleased tracks! Hartford scholar Skip Heller supplies liner notes to this monumental find on the enclosed insert.

This 2-LP Expanded Edition comes in forest green vinyl limited to 1500 copies, exclusive to Record Store Day!

Tracklist:
A1. Streetcar 
A2. Nobody Eats at Linebaugh’s Anymore 
A3. Howard Hughes’ Blues 
A4. All Fall Down 
A5. On the Road 
A6. Morning Bugle 

B1. Old Joe Clark 
B2. My Rag 
B3. Late Last Night When My Willie Comes Home 
B4. Got No Place to Go 
B5. Bye Bye 

C1. Talkback Mic (“that’s even slicker”) 
C2. Flower Power Died 
C3. Back Up and Push 
C4. Leaving Lap Farewell 
C5. Morning Bugle (Alternate Take) 
C6. My Rag (Alternate Take) 
C7. Yesterday Morning 

D1. Dandelion Lane 
D2. Airport Floor 
D3. More Like Him 
D4. Eight More Miles to Louisville 
D5. Chatter (“you know who called me?”) 
D6. Sittin’ on Top of the World

Label: Real Gone Music
Released: 1972/2024