John Hartford - Morning Bugle (Remixed, Remastered, Expanded)(RSD 2024, 2LP Green Vinyl)

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 on forest green vinyl, limited to 1500 copies worldwide, exclusive to Record Store Day 2024!

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