LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Folksinger Michael Johnathon’s WoodSongs 5: A Folksinger's Compendium & van Gogh Reader, the fifth volume in a series about art, music & rural living is now available at Amazon and MichaelJohnathon.com/ws5. Johnathon is one of America’s most popular folk singers, songwriters and host of the radio & TV broadcast, the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour.
The 176 page, full color book explores the world of van Gogh, Pete Seeger, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Hank Williams, John Denver, Billie Holiday and many other “creatives.” WoodSongs 5 is for the poets, painters, dreamers and time travelers, world-wanderers and highway vagabonds, rail riders and drifters who dream what is unseen so others can appreciate what has been created. They are 5-string politicians, 6-string therapists, banjo barristers, acoustic lovers and penny-pinching peacemakers … because those who sing together can not fight. They are still there. Still writing, searching, singing, trying to get this world in tune.
“Art and music has always been the ultimate expression of humanity,” Johnathon explains. “Now, more than ever in human history, that artistic expression is being suppressed and restrained by politics, by the collapse of the music and art industry, and by cancel-culture. WoodSongs 5 was written to chronicle the powerful motivation and back stories behind many of the world’s most revered artists, led by Vincent van Gogh. It was written to shine a spotlight on the stage of your own living room couch and the pulpit of America’s front porch.”
Each book comes complete with a full 11-song studio album on CD which includes originals like the opening track, “The Painter,” “Vincent in the Rain,” “Blues Tonight” and ends with the classic “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night).”
WoodSongs 5: A Folksinger's Compendium & van Gogh Reader
ISBN: 978-0-578-95249-9
LIBRARY of CONGRESS Control: 202191-4530
AUTHORED BY: Michael Johnathon
DIGITAL RELEASE: October 21, 2021
HARDCOPY RELEASE: January 21, 2022
About Michael Johnathon:
Among the throngs of artists in the music world, few have elevated “dreaming” to such a high art form as folk singer Michael Johnathon. He recently won the prestigious Milner Award of the Arts in 2020. He is also the screenwriter for the upcoming Caney Creek motion picture, a touring songwriter, author of five other published books, playwright of the Walden Play performed in 42 countries, composer of the opera, Woody: For the People, organizer of the national association of front porch musicians called SongFarmers, the full symphony performances of SONGS OF RURAL AMERICA and as the creator and host of the live audience broadcast of the WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour with a radio audience of over two million listeners each week on 500 public radio stations, public television coast-to-coast, American Forces Radio Network in 173 nations and now on the RFD-TV Network nationwide.
As Bob Spear of Heartland Review once wrote, “Take the inventiveness of Bob Dylan, the melodic voice of John Denver, add the showmanship of Garrison Keillor … and that’s Michael Johnathon.”
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The 176 page, full color book explores the world of van Gogh, Pete Seeger, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Hank Williams, John Denver, Billie Holiday and many other “creatives.” WoodSongs 5 is for the poets, painters, dreamers and time travelers, world-wanderers and highway vagabonds, rail riders and drifters who dream what is unseen so others can appreciate what has been created. They are 5-string politicians, 6-string therapists, banjo barristers, acoustic lovers and penny-pinching peacemakers … because those who sing together can not fight. They are still there. Still writing, searching, singing, trying to get this world in tune.
“Art and music has always been the ultimate expression of humanity,” Johnathon explains. “Now, more than ever in human history, that artistic expression is being suppressed and restrained by politics, by the collapse of the music and art industry, and by cancel-culture. WoodSongs 5 was written to chronicle the powerful motivation and back stories behind many of the world’s most revered artists, led by Vincent van Gogh. It was written to shine a spotlight on the stage of your own living room couch and the pulpit of America’s front porch.”
Each book comes complete with a full 11-song studio album on CD which includes originals like the opening track, “The Painter,” “Vincent in the Rain,” “Blues Tonight” and ends with the classic “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night).”
WoodSongs 5: A Folksinger's Compendium & van Gogh Reader
ISBN: 978-0-578-95249-9
LIBRARY of CONGRESS Control: 202191-4530
AUTHORED BY: Michael Johnathon
DIGITAL RELEASE: October 21, 2021
HARDCOPY RELEASE: January 21, 2022
About Michael Johnathon:
Among the throngs of artists in the music world, few have elevated “dreaming” to such a high art form as folk singer Michael Johnathon. He recently won the prestigious Milner Award of the Arts in 2020. He is also the screenwriter for the upcoming Caney Creek motion picture, a touring songwriter, author of five other published books, playwright of the Walden Play performed in 42 countries, composer of the opera, Woody: For the People, organizer of the national association of front porch musicians called SongFarmers, the full symphony performances of SONGS OF RURAL AMERICA and as the creator and host of the live audience broadcast of the WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour with a radio audience of over two million listeners each week on 500 public radio stations, public television coast-to-coast, American Forces Radio Network in 173 nations and now on the RFD-TV Network nationwide.
As Bob Spear of Heartland Review once wrote, “Take the inventiveness of Bob Dylan, the melodic voice of John Denver, add the showmanship of Garrison Keillor … and that’s Michael Johnathon.”
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