On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford is a fifteen-track various-artists album released by LoHi Records in June 2020 to benefit MusiCares. Hartford — banjo player, fiddler, riverboat pilot and the writer of “Gentle on My Mind” — occupies an odd place in this music: a songwriter whose biggest hit paid for a career spent well outside the mainstream, and whose Aereo-Plain band gave the newgrass movement its licence. The performers here come from the jam and progressive end of the roots world: Sam Bush opens with “On the Road,” and Fruition, Yonder Mountain String Band, Leftover Salmon, the Travelin' McCourys, Railroad Earth and Keller Williams each take a song. The Infamous Stringdusters contribute “Gentle on My Mind,” the song most listeners know, returned to the string band it came from.
Tracklist
- 1 On the Road 5:20
- 2 Back in the Goodle Days 3:59
- 3 Holding 4:01
- 4 Gentle on My Mind alt version 4:17
- 5 The Category Stomp 3:02
- 6 No End of Love 4:29
- 7 Delta Queen Waltz 4:00
- 8 Granny Woncha Smoke Some Marijuana 3:20
- 9 Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie 3:20
- 10 I Wish We Had Our Time Again alt version 2:54
- 11 Let Him Go On Mama alt version 3:49
- 12 In Tall Buildings alt version 3:26
- 13 Waugh Paugh 5:13
- 14 Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry 6:48
- 15 On the Road (Solo Version) 2:44
