Quote of the month

John used to say 'Well we’re going to get up there and we’re going to play one of theirs, and if that goes over we may play another one of theirs, and if they like that we’ll play one of ours.'

... John was real good at pushing you, knocking you off balance, and watching to see how you would recover. He’d do that live. He’d throw you a solo in a place you didn’t expect it, in a song you couldn’t play, and just see what you did. That’s my biggest memory of him.

Some of banjoist Bob Carlin's memories of John Hartford, on the Bluegrass Blog