Will Holt
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Biography
[Edit]Will Holt has enjoyed a successful music career — or, perhaps more accurately, several musical careers — in different idioms across five decades. He was born in Portland, ME, in 1929, and by 1935, at age six, he'd taken up the piano. Soon after that he began singing and taking voice lessons. He attended school in Exeter, NH, and during that time became interested in both the guitar and traditional music. During the late '40s, he studied with Richard Dyer-Bennett at the School for American Minstrels in Aspen, CO; his guitar teacher during this same period, also based at the school, was Rey de la Torre.
Holt spent a major part of 1950 traveling around Europe and began collecting folk songs. Following an interruption caused by the draft and two and a half years in the Air Force, he embarked on a music career in 1954 and was soon appearing on television and in nightclubs doing folk songs. By the middle of the decade, he'd played the Crystal Palace in St. Louis and the Village Vanguard in New York City, and he also recorded a pair of LPs for Stinson Records, A Will Holt Concert and Pills to Purge Melancholy. His repertory embraced traditional songs in many different forms, from European and British folk tunes such as "Three Jovial Huntsmen" and the Finnish "Kesailta" (which he discovered while passing through Helsinki) to cowboy songs such as "The Streets of Laredo."
In his performances and on his recordings, rather than use the standard instrumentation of folk artists of the period, he recruited a band made of top jazz musicians, with improvisation a definite goal in his performances — what's more, he knew enough about whence they came to write and speak authoritatively on almost anything in his repertory. Holt was known primarily as a folk artist during the second half of the 1950s, and wrote at least two classics of the genre, "Lemon Tree," which was vastly popular before Peter, Paul & Mary turned it into a hit, and "Raspberries, Strawberries," which was a hit for the Kingston Trio.
During the 1960s, Holt's career took a wholly unexpected turn when, in an off-Broadway collaboration with singer Martha Schlamme, he performed a program called The World of Kurt Weill in Song. The program became a huge critical and commercial success, and Holt suddenly had a new and very different audience that associated him with Weill's Berlin-inspired compositions. This new phase of his work only solidified his reputation as one of the more imposingly talented musicians to come out of the post-World War II folk music scene.
Title: The Me Nobody Knows (Original Cast Album)
Artist: Will Holt, Gary Wiliam Friedman
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Listen to the Heart - Single
Artist: Will Holt
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Me Nobody Knows (The Original Cast Recording)
Artist: Gary William Friedman, Will Holt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Collections
Title: Folk Collection - Lost & Found
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Essential Folk Revival
Genre: Pop
Title: The Greatest Stars of Folk Music
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Depth Mood, Vol. 1
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Deep Music, Vol. 4
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Summer Sexy Deep
Genre: Electronica, House, Deep House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Air Music Ibiza Nights 2016
Genre: Electronica, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Death Metal
Title: Deep Tunes: Best Deep House Grooves
Genre: Chill Out, House, Deep House
Title: Lab Of Music: Deep House Sensation (CD2)
Genre: House, Deep House, Club/Dance
Title: The Most Deep
Genre: Deep House
Title: Berlin Stage
Genre: Electronica, House, Deep House, Tech House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop, Progressive
Title: Spectrum 2016: Deep House Annual
Genre: Deep House
Title: Summer Deep House Grooves
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Deepest Vibes 2017
Genre: House, Deep House, Tech House
Title: Miami Opening Party 2019
Genre: Tech House, Nu Disco, Funk
Title: Ibiza Mega Party 2019
Title: Club EDM Mysterious (Vol. 02) (CD4)
Genre: Electronica
Title: Miami Deep Tunes 2020
Featuring albums
Title: All About Deep House, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Deep House Anthems, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Air Music - Ibiza Nights 2016
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Voile: Best of Deep House 2016
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: House, Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Miami Deep Underground 2017
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: House, Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Soulful Deep Grooves
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Most Played Deep House 2017
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Most Wanted Deep House 2018
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop