David Bromberg, John Hartford, Tom Paxton Live - Sitting On Top Of The World 1970

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Philadelphia Folk Festival
This video is an historical document. It shows a very important point, the beginnings of jamgrass.
It show the nexus of traditional music and what John Hartford called "that New York sensibility" (weed fueled organic improvisational music).
Hartford & Bromberg met at the 1970 Philadelphia Folk Festival. They made an immediate connection and were inseparable, a spark was made, the fuse was lit.
Bromberg was scheduled to play solo he instead formed an hoc band and invited John. (The first time Bromberg played in public with a band)
John said he was greatly inspired by Bromberg's creative attitude and shortly after this fest, he asked Bromberg to produce his seminal jamgrass album, Steam Powered Aereo Plain.
And the rest is history, as they say.

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@kennykrichman4678 4 ай бұрын

Anything David does or with is real music

@msspi764 9 ай бұрын

What's really cool, and what takes this back even farther, is the song they're playing, Sittin on Top of the World. It's originally written and performed by members of the Mississippi Sheiks, a 1930s country blues band. Robert Johnson took the tune and applied different lyrics for his song Come On in my Kitchen. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys did a westernized version, Bill Monroe did a bluegrass version. Soon it became a standard in everyone's repertoire. This version is a hybrid of the Sheiks and the Bill Monroe with some Robert Johnson Come On in my Kitchen lyrics thrown in (Bromberg sings Come on in my kitchen cause it's going to be raining outdoors in the last verse). Back then you had to be a musicologist seeking out the records of all this stuff. Bromberg had to have done that to know these different lyrics. People were doing this all over.

@barbarashirley3278 5 ай бұрын

Don't forget that Cream did a killer bluesy rock version.

@Someone-kg8qf 3 ай бұрын

I love you people,. I was thinking that it might be a bluegrass cover of Les Paul's Sitting on Top of the World. Lol I love music.

@Someone-kg8qf 3 ай бұрын

One of my friends back in the 90s did a killer cover of come in my kitchen....

@Someone-kg8qf 3 ай бұрын

I'm not a musicologist...just a mediocre audiophile.

@johnny85er Жыл бұрын

My LANDS!

@ffpr1 10 ай бұрын

Wow!!

@bitfenix90 2 ай бұрын

These guys would show up on their own, or something arrive together. Those were special weeks of 1970-1977.

@tadmartin3049 2 ай бұрын

I love seeing videos of David when he was this young. He just seems to be having so much fun.

@ffpr1 10 ай бұрын

Who's playing the mouthharp lol. Looks like he's playing with his moustache!!

@steveshultis9525 9 ай бұрын

I wanted to ask the same question - great solo!

@steveshultis9525 9 ай бұрын

I found him - it was Eric Fransden - from the village

@charlestompkins1090 9 ай бұрын

Not a mouthharp (harmonica) but a Jews harp(or Jaw harp) as David says

@0nextlifemaybe Жыл бұрын

Hartford would release "Aereo-Plain" almost exactly one year later 9/1/71.

@martianshoes 11 ай бұрын

I saw Hartford 5 years later on the Mark Twang tour. He was brilliant as always.

@0nextlifemaybe 11 ай бұрын

@@martianshoes Heard a recording of him live at the Down Home a couple tours later. There was a section where he was playing old fiddle tunes and the sound from him dancing on the plywood was slowly being altered with some kind of effect pedal. Mesmerizing.

@martianshoes 11 ай бұрын

Hartford played a small amusement park in North Georgia called Lake Winnepasauka we got talk to him between shows… my friend engaged him about changing labels…this was long before he was with Flying Fish. He seemed tired but nice. Lake Winnie had a tiny stage with forest acoustics; would have been a draggy gig for anyone that had previously hosted a network television show…