Housing Project (album)

Housing Project
Studio album by
John Hartford
Released1968
GenreFolk, country, novelty
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerFelton Jarvis
John Hartford chronology
The Love Album
(1968) 		Housing Project
(1968) 		John Hartford
(1969)
Alternative cover

Housing Project is John Hartford's fourth album, released in 1968. Like all of his RCA recordings, it was reissued in 2002 as part of a "twofer" CD, combined with his third album, The Love Album.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
AllMusic[2]

Music critic Richie Unterberger, writing for AllMusic, called the album "off-kilter country-pop with liberal smidgens of bluegrass and intellectual folk-rock lyricism. It was little less ornately produced than its immediate predecessor, The Love Album, but the arrangements remained chock-full of surprising interjections..."[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by John Hartford.

  1. "Housing Project"
  2. "I'm Still Here"
  3. "Crystallia Daydream"
  4. "The Girl with the Long Brown Hair"
  5. "I Didn't Know the World Would Last This Long"
  6. "The Sailboat Song"
  7. "The Category Stomp"
  8. "Go Fall Asleep Now"
  9. "My Face"
  10. "Big Blue Balloon"
  11. "In Like Of"
  12. "Shiny Rails of Steel"

Personnel

  • John Hartford – banjo, guitar, fiddle, vocals

References

  1. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Housing Project > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  2. ^ Lankford, Jr., Ronnie D. "The Love Album/Housing Project > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2011.