Singer/Songwriter John Hartford will be the subject of a new exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame starting January 24. John Hartford: Ever Smiling, Ever Gentle on My Mind will cover his life as a songwriter, performer, steamboat pilot, author and historian. "In many ways, John Hartford is the Mark Twain of traditional music," said Mick Buck, the museum's curator of collections. "He ...
At a time when country music was shining like a new dime, John Hartford and his collaborators were digging into old time music to find something new.At the turn of the millennium or so, when country music found its way back to the ramshackle cabin where some of its oldest roots in bluegrass had been kept for years, they found there’d been a light left on. And sitting on the porch, banjo on his .