From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V4 #95 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Saturday, May 12 2001 Volume 04 : Number 095 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: "ACL" #1811 [Smithfinn@aol.com] Re: "ACL" #1811 ["cycle12345" ] John Hartford ["Shelley DePaul" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:29:07 EDT From: Smithfinn@aol.com Subject: Re: "ACL" #1811 Steve, If you find out, let me know! Maybe it's time to make our own Gorka music video. :-) Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:29:08 -0400 From: "cycle12345" Subject: Re: "ACL" #1811 Will do, Susie-que! Steve - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: "ACL" #1811 > Steve, If you find out, let me know! > > Maybe it's time to make our own Gorka music video. :-) > > Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:03:52 -0400 From: "Shelley DePaul" Subject: John Hartford My friend, Cindy, from Godfrey Daniels forwarded this to me today. I thought it should be passed along. .................................. I got this today. I am sure many of you have probably recieved word on John, but i thought I'd pass it along. Thanks for keeping John in your good thoughts. Thanks, Cindy From fiddler Mark O'Connor: From: Mark O'Connor Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:21 PM Subject: John Hartford A note to ask my friends to send out a good thought and prayer for one heck of a guy. John Hartford is about to pass on and is not able to communicate now. I have found out that his family is not answering any phone calls, but he is at home now from the hospital. John Hartford has been a friend of mine since he flew to Nashville from L.A. to be on my 2nd recording back in 1975 when I was just thirteen. He was a prince and has always been there for me as a friend and a colleague. When I was trying to figure out how to play unaccompanied performances twelve years ago, it was John who gave the words of encouragement I needed to have, while many others simply doubted the possibility of my doing it. John was also my mother's favorite person in the music business. Thought he hung the moon. Just before losing my mother to cancer almost 20 years ago, one of her last wishes was for my sister and I to drive her across the country from Seattle to see John one last time in Tennessee. It is also cancer that will take John Hartford away from us very soon as well. A collective prayer from my mailing list towards John Hartford would be something great. The wonderful modern day minstrel one man show, the author of one of the greatest hit songs of all time, Gentle On My Mind, and those early memories of him and Glen Campbell on "The Good Time Hour" in the late 60's prime time television will last with me for ever and I am sure will endure with many of you. He was a champion for the fiddle and collected as many original fiddle tune manuscripts and the various literature as anyone I know. He continued to practice furiously on the fiddle even until recently, setting out to get better and better. And he did! He would come to my fiddle camps in Tennessee and just hang out on the porch of the mess hall playing away until way past the sun going down. For all of that and more, I will think of you and love you forever John Hartford. I also love your home there looking over that Cumberland River. The thoughts of you dreaming about the old steamboats coming past you from days gone by is a poignant one at this time. I was on the nomination committee of the Kennedy Center Honors last year and did nominate John Hartford. I bet one day you will get that one too John. May God be with you. Mark O'Connor www.markoconnor.com ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V4 #95 *******************************