John Fizer's Home Page
Flowers of the Heart
John Fizer was born on May 31st, 1945, and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
He picked up his first guitar at the age of 18, inspired by the works of Bob Dylan and other contemporary folk musicians while he was studying in Virginia.
While he served in the military, he was called upon to perform to thousands of troops, and he played Dylan's Masters of War, much to the chagrin of his superior officers.
John spent some of the best years of his life sharing his songs with the students of UC Berkeley and with those he met on his travels around the States, turning down a career in music to be, simply, a
musician.
John Fizer is a model citizen that knows Love is the answer to life's most difficult questions. He is home-free and like many of his generation has been left to fend for himself, a task he
takes on gracefully.
This collection of works has been resurrected from old VHS tapes recorded at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California in the early 1980s, as well as from his album entitled The Kitchen Mix
which was recorded in, you guessed it, a kitchen, in 2000.
As John has aged it has become his endeavor to preserve his works for generations to come, and with the help of Paul Blake at the Berkeley Media Center, this dream has come to fruition.
These works are preserved in downloadable format (because if we gave John a bunch of CD's, he'd probably just give them all away for a smile).
Please take some time to listen to John's music and feel the life time of love and toil that went into making it. He offers them free of charge for
you to enjoy. Any money that you can donate will go directly to John to help him pay cover only the basics - all that he needs.
John Fizer's Home Page
Flowers of the Heart
John will be 68 this year, and currently lives in Berkeley, CA.
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A message from John
This is about leaving my music forever. These are the songs
I want you to save, I want you to hear. Thank you.
Welcome home.
Recently, a cache of old recording were found and digitized to create body of work consisting of "songs of love to be sung to the wind" as he says it himself. This website is a celebration of an American folk musician's life works. Thirty years of effort went into this body of music, and John Fizer created it for all peoples of the world.
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- Think on These Things
- Blackwood Canyon Blues
- Good Morning Glory
- Song of my Hands
- Rainbow Warriors
- The Web
- Small Pleasures
- Moonlight on my Windowsill
- Outside the Pale
- Flowers of the Heart
- Ramsey Willis Alan's Angel Eyes
- Looking for Alice
- Sleeping Goddess
- Don't Hurt That Child
- Tibetan Bells
- Keeper of the Keys
- Childhood's End
- Bill Edd Wheeler's Coal Tattoo
- Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene
- Robert Johnson's Kind Hearted Woman
- Somebody Touched Me
- Tim Carpenter's If I were a Carpenter
- James David Standing Bull's Song to the Spirit People