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- Artist: John Hartford
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- Release Date: 1987
- Genre: Country
Review
Hartford's most even Flying Fish album, with equal measures of songwriting whimsy and expert musicianship, Gum Tree Canoe includes a number of tunes that would remain concert staples for the length of his career. From the relaxed stroll of the album's title track to a rendition of Doc Watson's "Your Long Journey" to an original breakneck bluegrass instrumental, "Jug Harris," there's not a clinker to be heard. Hartford's banjo playing is exceptional, as is the accompaniment provided by a host of fine country, bluegrass, and newgrass pickers, Roy Huskey, Jr., Sam Bush, and Jerry Douglas among them. Riverboat tales, an R&B staple, and the Rolling Stones couldn't sound more at home together than they do on this fine album from one of roots music's genuine originals. Flying Fish's remastered CD, issued in 2001, includes two previously unreleased tunes and a short written tribute by Hartford String Band banjo player Bob Carlin. ~ Brian Beatty, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| I'm Still Here | John Hartford | John Hartford | (3:26) |
| Way Down the River Road | John Hartford | John Hartford | (2:18) |
| Gum Tree Canoe | John Hartford | (4:07) | |
| Your Long Journey | Doc Watson, |
John Hartford | (2:27) |
| Jug Harris | John Hartford | John Hartford | (2:25) |
| Little Piece of My Heart | John Hartford | (3:12) | |
| Take Me Back to My Mississippi Riveer Home | John Hartford | (3:53) | |
| Lorena | John Hartford | (4:45) | |
| Wrong Road Again | John Hartford | (2:48) | |
| No Expectations | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | John Hartford | (4:03) |
| You Asked Me To [#] | Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver | John Hartford | (3:48) |
| I Wonder Where You Are Tonight [#] | Johnny Bond | John Hartford | (4:13) |
