Much too close to 50 years ago to bear thinking about, I was sitting in a friend's dorm room being amazed by my first dose of LSD, and someone was kind enough to put
Aereo-Plain on the stereo (back when college kids had actual stereos....); it's been on my 10-Desert-Island-Albums list ever since. That is a very nice version of "Steamboat Whistle Blues".
But, of course, it sent me running for the original (for those few who may be unaware,
Aereo-Plain was credited to John Hartford, but - much like the P.E.R.R.O. sessions became a David Crosby album - was actually a project of the Dobrolic Plectral Society; Hartford on banjo, Norman Blake on guitar, Tut Taylor on Dobro, Vassar Clements on fiddle, and Randy Scruggs on bass; of course there was some instrument switching going on, but that's who played what the most):
ereo-plane was a Peter (who just shed a tear upon realizing that the revered Mr. Blake is the only one still with us)
