Hartford, Rice & Clements (Small Dog A-Barkin', 2011) is an informal home recording made in 1988 in John Hartford's Nashville basement, captured straight to two-track digital on VHS tape and not released commercially until after the deaths of both Hartford (2001) and Vassar Clements (2011). Hartford plays banjo and sings; Tony Rice plays guitar and sings; Clements plays fiddle; Roy Huskey Jr. holds the string bass; and Mark Howard plays mandolin. The thirteen tracks — including "Love Grown Cold," "My Baby's Gone," "Bound to Ride," and "Long Journey Home" — were recorded for the pleasure of playing rather than for release, and the result stands as a document of extraordinary informal acoustic musicianship that the intervening years made retrospectively precious. The album is among the most vivid survivals of the communal jam-session culture that sustained the acoustic revival.
Tracklist
- 1 Bound to Ride alt version 1:45
- 2 If I Should Wander Back Tonight alt version 2:42
- 3 I know you don't love me no more 2:36
- 4 My baby's gone 2:27
- 5 The wings of a song 2:51
- 6 Sweet Sunny South alt version 3:27
- 7 We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore alt version 3:03
- 8 Long Journey Home alt version 3:04
- 9 Love Grown Cold alt version 2:51
- 10 Love Please Come Home alt version 2:20
- 11 Heavenly sunlight 3:33
- 12 Poor Ellen Smith alt version 2:16
- 13 Where is your heart tonight 3:18