Thursday, November 21, 2019

And now, this...

Have you ever heard of John Hartford? If you think not, have you ever heard the song "Gentle on My Mind"? Yep, John Hartford song. Glen Campbell did a fantastic version that made the song famous...pretty monstrously famous, as a matter of fact. But I have to say that John Hartford was a lot more than that one song. A lot more, actually. His 1971 album Aereo-Plain is widely accepted as the beginning of New Grass, for instance. And if that don't suit you...well, that's a drag.

But if it does suit you, you might be interested to know about a Kickstarter project I just happened upon a few minutes ago.


I signed up without having to think about it...but I had a queasy moment about this, though. For one thing...




I mean...how is that possible?

I mean...the song "Gentle on My Mind" alone won four 1968 Grammy Awards and sold millions of copies as a record, and according to Wikipedia has sold 251,000 digital copies since it became available in that format in 2017. Surely some of those folks would be into some more John Hartford. I mean, seriously..."Gentle on My Mind" is a good song, but Hartford has tons of stuff which is much, much better. Pop over to You Tube or Spotify and listen to some of Aero-Plain and see if you don't agree.

Anyway.

The Good News here is that the average backer for this Kickstarter campaign is throwing down $72.26, which sounds like a really good per capita average to me. And with $15,102 to go to meet the goal, that means that if that average could hold up a little bit longer,  it would only take 209 more folks to bring this steam-powered aero-plane in for a landing. 

The Bad News is that there are only 11 more days to get 'er done. 

So...come on people, now. Smile on Brother Hartford. 

Okay?
Okay.

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