John Hartford

John Hartford is John Hartford's fifth album, released in 1969. It reached number 137 on The Billboard 200 chart. Like all of his RCA recordings, it was reissued in 2002. in the reissue package, John Hartford is combined with his sixth album, Iron Mountain Depot, and a seventh unreleased album of RCA material, Radio John. Reception Music critic Stewart Mason, writing for AllMusic, wrote of the album "RCA probably thought they were just signing the guy who wrote "Gentle on My Mind" when they signed John Hartford back in 1966, but his own albums just kept getting stranger and stranger during the late '60s, culminating in this bizarre piece of orchestrated country-tinged art rock from 1969" Music critic Robert Christgau rated the album a D+ on his scale and wrote "Hartford is an engaging singer and an excellent songwriter, but the production and arrangements on this record are criminal... and the material very thin..." Track listing All tracks written by John Hartford.