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About Me

..John Henry Olthoff is a country and folk singer-songwriter currently living in the very nice Queens, NY neighborhood of Jackson Heights. Some time after mastering the fine art of referring to himself in the third person, he wrote this: He has a small kitchen but a big heart. And a big mouth. Most Monday nights, he can be seen hollering, yodeling, and banging on his guitar in front of an occasionally shocked audience at The Red Lion on Bleecker St. in NYC's Greenwich Village. Other nights, he's out teaching math and science to Adult Education students. Or sleeping. Send him a message, or a comment, or be his friend. He's starved for attention.Oh, and by the way, his song "Buick Skylark" and "Broken Toy" were both named Finalists in 2007's Song of the Year Contest (www.songoftheyear.com).So what did you do for Christmas vacation?

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Member Since: 3/20/2007
Band Website: zoomoozik.com/JohnHenryOlthoff
Band Members: John Henry Olthoff: Guitars, Vocals, Songs, Silliness; Josephine and Ethylene Olthoff: Sleeping on the floor, knocking over the waterbowl, playing with strings and catnip mice...
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Influences: ..John Prine, Uncle Tupelo, Bob Dylan, Son Volt, Wilco, Old 97s, John Hiatt, John Wesley Harding, Tom Petty, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Robbie Fulks, The Jayhawks, Johnny Cash, Oe Kenzaburo, Whiskeytown, Kelly Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Bragg, The BoDeans, Dwight Yoakam, Five Chinese Brothers, Freedy Johnston, Drive-By-Truckers, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Frank Stanford, Willie Nelson (not THE Willie Nelson, but his name is Willie Nelson), Carl’s guitar solo from "The Clowning" (boo bam da doo doo, widdly wam), MC Pee Pants, Jackie Mason, and I’m going to need a longer form.
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Sounds Like: Sounds like I only know how to use one track to record on my digital recorder. Actually, sounds a lot better than that now, if I do say so myself, thanks to the guys at Casa Nova Studios, but really, how would you expect a schoolteacher in Jackson Heights playing country music to sound?
Record Label: Zoomoozik.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Actual Band at LPAC Music Festival May 30th 7PM

Hi!I'm very happy to be playing with The Actual Band! at LaGuardia Community College's Music Festival on Friday, May 30th at 7PM.So I hope y'all will come down and see the lovely and talented Kim Baye...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:55:00 PST

Note to Self...

So here's my latest modern classic, straight from my sofa to your ears... I wrote this in about an hour and recorded two takes, but only one take seemed to take. I don't know why, but this one i...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:48:00 PST

Flamingo Dancer

So I'm killing time before I have to go and teach my Adult Education math class. The other week, in one of my classes, this happened: I read a question having to do with probability. It we...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:52:00 PST

submission

This film got Theo Van Gogh killed and forced his partner, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, into hiding. I’ve just read Infidel and it’s a great and very disturbing book. Now whackjobs are taking to the...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:43:00 PST

Review of the Yippie Museum Cafe Show by Verena Salvi

Hi! Verena Salvi is another very good friend of mine. Verena, if you’re reading this, you need to quit smoking! Since I’ve started making music and playing shows, Verena has been a g...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:13:00 PST

Review of the Yippie Museum Show by Chris Danowski

Chris Danowski is one of my best friends. We’ve known each other since first grade, where I promptly broke his leg. Gladly, I have not had cause to do that since. So, it is wi...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:33:00 PST

Attention Seekers Blues

Here’s a new song that I recorded today. It’s kind of about me, exaggerated, hyperbolated, truth-stretcherated. If any of you out there are wearing skinny pants and Converse, ...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:30:00 PST

Childish Things

So I finally finished this thorn-in-my-side of a song, and here’s a very rough, too-long demo I just recorded in one take on my sofa. Country music is not usually the medium in which you&...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:09:00 PST

No, kitties--we’re not getting a new phone.

So a letter comes in the mail. It's junk mail, a solicitation from Vonage, the digital phone company. This is not strange--we get lots of crap in the mail. Only this letter is ...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:53:00 PST

i’d love to live in a free country

and not a 'christian nation.' oh wait, i do live in a free country, and not a 'christian nation': http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,2317,US-Treaty-with-Tr ipoli,Joel-Barlow ...
Posted by John Henry Olthoff on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:18:00 PST