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The Folk Hour The Ever-Demanding Muse!

Topics: Music

Producer:

John Martin Holland

Musings of songs written in a 45-year career of songwriting and covering songs.

Produced with facilities provided by Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM).

Episode Number:

018

Original Airdate:

Monday, December 5, 2016

Series:

Music

Shows In This Series

Old Songs Revisited

Trip through songwriter's past, taking look at some of the old songs John first started writing when he was a young . . .
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Folk Singer's Bag of Songs

Singer/ songwriter John Holland goes through his bag of songs and some new songs that have social . . .
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Folks Songs of the 60s, 70s, 80s

Singer/songwriter John Holland sings folk songs and some original music. Produced with facilities provided by . . .
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Winter Blues

Songs I've written in the last twenty years playing on the streets of Burlington, observing the condition of the world . . .
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Songs I've Sung

Songs I've sung and remembered - Christmas songs remembered. Closing your eyes and remembering the golden olden . . .
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Dustin Off the Year Behind

Coming back out and revisiting some old "used-to-be's"Remembering that music heals and each of us is a . . .
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Winter Writings

Notebook songs, all size snippets and verse. Musings on life: accompaniment guitar to verse. Winter (Muse) writings . . .
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Original Songs in the Folk Process

This episode features longtime friend Jeff Boomhower and his amazing drum work in support of my . . .
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Just a Man and His Songs

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The Ever-Demanding Muse!

Musings of songs written in a 45-year career of songwriting and covering songs. Produced with facilities provided . . .
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Spring Songs

Feeling how real life can become and being launched by inspiration to sing the real folk songs; the song of self that . . .
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Reflections

Grab bag of Emotions in song. If you got the blues, you got the muse. And don't forget to love the ones you're with. . . .
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Refugees

This hour began with the metaphor of people and community and the world in its hugeness. The theme of rich and poor . . .
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Goin Back Home

The older I get,...the more sure I am of memories being what connects us to each other.When I write a song,oft times . . .
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A Hobo's Christmas

Original compositions of John's and an intro of "Hobo's Lullabye"—Guthrie, Goebel's exploring new finger picking . . .
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Early Days

Noodling with song snippets; Christmas songs weave through John's own lyrics; working the secular and commercial . . .
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Refugees

Pulling out some new stuff and thoughts about the refugee crisis we will all be required to pay attention to. I . . .
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Exploring the Songwriter's Psyche

Songs do not write themselves. Still,they come from some place in the human consciousness. John's songs write to the . . .
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New Songs for a New World

As a folksinger and follower of the folk processes to worthwhile song content, John dabbles in the "Why?" of topical . . .
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October 23, 2015

Tribute to a friend: Songs for people in sorrow. Produced with facilities provided by Vermont Community Access . . .
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October 16, 2015

John finds a 'parcel' of musings and shares with the good folk. No politics as John revisits his adventures in poem . . .
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Notebook Songs

John shares with us his musings as to the condition of the world and a strong work ethic for self healing. Produced . . .
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Mother's Day Theme

The songs all seem to gravitate toward the whole idea of family values; is what makes love come around. Produced . . .
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Episode 3

Folk singer-songwriter, Americana, new folk
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Episode 1

Folk singer-songwriter, Americana, new folk.
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Episode 2

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