| Housing Project | ||||
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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Genre | Folk, country, novelty | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Felton Jarvis | |||
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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 .
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| 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]
All tracks written by John Hartford.
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