Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
"When I came up in 'old-time country music' and if there's anything that you learn, I mean it is drilled into yah; When you come out on stage, you don't say a word. You jump right in with a real 'barn-burner' that grabs them by the hair and you never let go. You gotta be smooth, you gotta be professional, you gotta be drivin'. I've lived by that rule for the past 50 years.....until, today." ~ Bill Jolliff
From the Pristine Watershed of Camp Myrtlewood in Southern Oregon, this edition of "Brethren Voices" features "Music of Bill Jolliff", who, during his journey has been a professor of Literature at George Fox University for nearly 3-decades. He is an active writer and researcher. Bill's musical interests have carried him for 50 years of his life and we share some of his works and humor in this edition of "Brethren Voices." His students describe Bill with much admiration and appreciation. Typically, they appreciate his knowledge of literature and humor.
Bill is known in Brethren Circles as a frequent, featured performer at the Annual Song and Story Fest, that has been held for the past 24 years at various sites around the United States. Should you happen to be a regular viewer of "Brethren Voices," the theme song, "The Jesus Way," is one of Bill's creations.
Bill grew up in Magnetic Springs, Ohio, and with his dry humor, states, "the springs are actually magnetic." Jolliff started playing the guitar and banjo with his grandmother when he was 15. During his high school years, he started forming an interest in American literature, especially the works of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck.
He studied English at Ohio State University where he earned his PhD. He had been a professor at Messiah College near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and his teaching have continued for nearly three decades at George Fox University, located in Newberg, Oregon.
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Tags: Country Music with a message, Banjo, Guitar, Humorist, Literature, Song Writer, Immagration Song, Heaven's Gates Are Wider, Arctic Wildlife Refuge Learning Tour, New Community Project, "Traveling On.",
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YouTube Link
youtu.be/jknItN3aafI
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Also, this show is available for local public TV stations to broadcast.
Phone your local public TV station (LPTV) to request they broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format, HD or SD, from www.PEGMedia.org . This film is available for broadcast from any LPTV station in the country - and world. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
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"When I came up in 'old-time country music' and if there's anything that you learn, I mean it is drilled into yah; When you come out on stage, you don't say a word. You jump right in with a real 'barn-burner' that grabs them by the hair and you never let go. You gotta be smooth, you gotta be professional, you gotta be drivin'. I've lived by that rule for the past 50 years.....until, today." ~ Bill Jolliff
From the Pristine Watershed of Camp Myrtlewood in Southern Oregon, this edition of "Brethren Voices" features "Music of Bill Jolliff", who, during his journey has been a professor of Literature at George Fox University for nearly 3-decades. He is an active writer and researcher. Bill's musical interests have carried him for 50 years of his life and we share some of his works and humor in this edition of "Brethren Voices." His students describe Bill with much admiration and appreciation. Typically, they appreciate his knowledge of literature and humor.
Bill is known in Brethren Circles as a frequent, featured performer at the Annual Song and Story Fest, that has been held for the past 24 years at various sites around the United States. Should you happen to be a regular viewer of "Brethren Voices," the theme song, "The Jesus Way," is one of Bill's creations.
Bill grew up in Magnetic Springs, Ohio, and with his dry humor, states, "the springs are actually magnetic." Jolliff started playing the guitar and banjo with his grandmother when he was 15. During his high school years, he started forming an interest in American literature, especially the works of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck.
He studied English at Ohio State University where he earned his PhD. He had been a professor at Messiah College near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and his teaching have continued for nearly three decades at George Fox University, located in Newberg, Oregon.
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Tags: Country Music with a message, Banjo, Guitar, Humorist, Literature, Song Writer, Immagration Song, Heaven's Gates Are Wider, Arctic Wildlife Refuge Learning Tour, New Community Project, "Traveling On.",
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YouTube Link
youtu.be/jknItN3aafI
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Also, this show is available for local public TV stations to broadcast.
Phone your local public TV station (LPTV) to request they broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format, HD or SD, from www.PEGMedia.org . This film is available for broadcast from any LPTV station in the country - and world. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
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