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Interview with John Hartford
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Singer and songwriter John Hartford was also a writer and author of Steamboat in a Cornfield. Hartford shares with Swaim about his life working on the river and the serendipitous nature of what would become his writing and musical career. Steamboat in a Cornfield is a story about just that, a steamboat in a cornfield. The subtitle is "a children's book for children for all ages," as it is designed as a picture book. The story, however, is based on true events. This steamboat was carried into a corn field during severe floods. Once the water receded, the boat remained and later became a tourist attraction and the subject of folk stories and "old-timie" songs. To hear more and to hear Hartford sing one of his original pieces like "Gentle on My Mind," click on the link below. Listen
to the John Hartford interview with Don Swaim, 1986
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For over a decade, many of the best writers of the English language found their way onto Don Swaim's daily two-minute CBS Radio show, Book Beat . His New York-based program was derived from longer interviews, sometimes 40-minutes in length. Found exclusively here, Wired for Books proudly webcasts these conversations in their entirety using RealAudio. © Ohio University |
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