Glitter Grass from the Nashwood Hollyville Strings | ||||
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Studio album by John Hartford | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Genre | Bluegrass | |||
Label | Flying Fish | |||
Producer | Michael Melford | |||
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Glitter Grass from the Nashwood Hollyville Strings (sometimes called Dillard - Hartford - Dillard) is an album by John Hartford, Doug Dillard, and Rodney Dillard, released in 1977. [1]
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Glitter Grass was reissued on CD in 1992 along with Permanent Wave on the Flying Fish label. [1]
Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records.
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