Housing Project

by John Hartford

Housing Project cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:00
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Housing Project' finds John Hartford continuing his idiosyncratic deconstruction of traditional roots music. By marrying existential, deeply poetic lyricism with a progressive country framework, the album expands the intellectual boundaries of the genre.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, existential, progressive, conscious, melodic, folklore

Tracklist

  1. Housing Project (1:19)
  2. I'm Still Here (2:48)
  3. Crystallia Daydream (3:07)
  4. The Girl With the Long Brown Hair (2:29)
  5. I Didn't Know the World Would Last This Long (4:10)
  6. The Sailboat Song (1:37)
  7. The Category Stomp (2:13)
  8. Go Fall Asleep Now (3:03)
  9. My Face (2:16)
  10. Big Blue Balloon (2:54)
  11. In Like Of (2:48)
  12. Shiny Rails of Steel (2:10)

Credits

  • John Hartford - primary artist, sleeve notes, written-by
  • Felton Jarvis - producer

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