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Released
  
1967

Artist
  
John Hartford

Producer
  
Felton Jarvis

Earthwords and Music (1967)
  
The Love Album (1968)

Release date
  
1967

Label
  
RCA Victor

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Genres
  
Country music, Folk music, Novelty song

Similar
  
John Hartford albums, Country music albums

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Earthwords and Music is John Hartford's second LP, released in 1967. Like all of his RCA recordings, it was reissued in 2002 as part of a "twofer" CD, combined with his first album, Looks at Life.

Contents

The album includes Hartford's Grammy-winning hit song, "Gentle on My Mind".

Reception

After noting some of the musical novelty songs of the album, music critic Jim Worbois, writing for Allmusic, wrote "Also contains some fine straight songs. Good stuff."

Track listing

All songs by John Hartford.
  1. "Good Old Electric Washing Machine" – 2:08
  2. "Love Song in 2/4 Time" – 1:38
  3. "Daytime of Life" – 5:22
  4. "Whose That?" – 1:52
  5. "There Are No Fools in Heaven" – 4:30
  6. "Earthwords" – 1:43
  7. "Gentle on My Mind" – 3:05
  8. "Naked in Spite of Myself" – 3:09
  9. "How Come You're Being So Good to Me" – 2:05
  10. "No End of Love" – 3:21
  11. "Left Handed Woman" – 1:39
  12. "Baking Soda" – 1:28

Songs

1(Good Old Electric) Washing Machine (Circa 1943)2:07
2Love Song in 2/4 Time1:34
3Daytime of Life5:19

References

Earthwords & Music Wikipedia
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