The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Volume 1 (StuffWorks Recordings, 2020) is a studio album drawn from fiddle tunes discovered in John Hartford's unpublished notebooks after his death in 2001 — among more than 2,000 original compositions Hartford wrote but never recorded in the last eighteen years of his life. Matt Combs plays fiddle and produced the project; Ronnie McCoury plays mandolin; Noam Pikelny plays banjo; Chris Eldridge plays guitar; and Dennis Crouch holds the bass, with additional contributions from a rotating cast that includes Alison Brown, Sierra Hull, Tim O'Brien, and others across the album's tracks. The project was released alongside a companion volume, John Hartford's Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes, establishing a dual documentary purpose: giving Hartford's unrecorded compositions both a performance archive and a published tune book, and inaugurating the first systematic effort to bring this posthumous catalog into recorded form.
Tracklist
- 1 Tennessee Politics Source Recording 4:11
- 2 Calhoun County 3:16
- 3 Old Beveled Mirror 3:28
- 4 Running Board Waltz 2:12
- 5 Little Country Town 2:29
- 6 Don Brown and the Boys 2:56
- 7 John Rice 2:38
- 8 On Guitars, The Ends of New Fingers Get Sore 2:43
- 9 Long White Road 2:20
- 10 The Old Man's Drunk 2:28
- 11 Heartache What to Do 1:44
- 12 How Can We Love 2:06
- 13 Just Enough Room to Turn Around 3:38
- 14 Every Hour on the Hour 2:03
- 15 The Half-Price Hornpipe 4:07
- 16 Over at the Side of the Road 2:20
- 17 Evening Farewell 1:55
