Nobody Knows What You Do, released by Flying Fish in 1976, is the John Hartford album that followed the minimalist Mark Twang and found Hartford returning to a full band with a deliberately eccentric program of country-rock and progressive bluegrass material. Recorded at the Sound Shop in Nashville, the sessions assembled a remarkable cast — Buddy Emmons on steel and dobro, Benny Martin on fiddle, Sam Bush on mandolin, Kenny Malone on drums, David Briggs on piano, and Mac Wiseman on harmony vocals — for a record that critics described as Hartford's most far-out studio outing. Inside the eccentricity is the Hartford sensibility that would carry his late career: deep traditional knowledge worked through a curiosity about everything outside the tradition.
Tracklist
- 1 You Don't Have to Do That 2:37
- 2 Didn't Want to Be Forgotten 2:22
- 3 In Tall Buildings Source Recording 3:26
- 4 John McLaughlin 1:44
- 5 Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana 3:00
- 6 The False Hearted Tenor Waltz 3:08
- 7 Get No Better (a.k.a. Joseph’s Dream) Source Recording 4:24
- 8 Down 2:06
- 9 The Golden Globe Award 4:26
- 10 Sly Feel 4:37
- 11 Somewhere My Love /We'll Meet Again Sweetheart 2:41
- 12 Nobody Knows What You Do 3:59