Gum Tree Canoe  Gum Tree Canoe is an album by the American musician John Hartford, released in 1984. It was reissued on CD in 2001 with two additional tracks. In a review for AllMusic, critic Brian Beatty wrote: John Lupton of "Country Standard Time" wrote "this is Hartford at his entertaining best, a bittersweet reminder of how much was lost to us when he passed away".