found: His Songs for our times [SR] p1984:label (all songs by John O'Connor) container (vocals and guitar; grew up in Conn., N.M., and Iowa; moved to Northwest in 1977)
found: COHM, May 27, 1999(O'Connor, John; O'Connor, John, 1949- )
notfound: Stambler, I. Encyc. of folk, country & Western music, 1983;Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed.;Int. ww in mus., v. 2, pop. mus., 1st ed.;Contemporary musicians;McCloud, B. Definitive country.
found: Half the truth, 2016:title page (John Paul O'Connor) page 89 (grew up in Connecticut, New Mexico and Iowa; after high school, worked in factories in Waterloo, Iowa; continued working various unskilled jobs until he recorded an album of his original songs for Flying Fish Records and began career as a folksinger and songwriter; in the late nineties began working as a union organizer; poems have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize; lives in Vermont and central New York State; Half the truth is his first book of poems)
found: Biography, John Paul O'Connor, viewed April 13 via WWW(right out of high school went to work in the factories of Waterloo, Iowa; in 1983, while living in Seattle, sent his songs to Flying Fish Records and landed contract for an album, which came out in 1984 as Songs for our times; has won the Associated Writer's Program's Prague Prize, poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and his collection of poems, Half the truth, won the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry in 2015)
found: OCLC, April 13, 2017(access point: O'Connor, John, 1949- ; O'Connor, John Paul; usage: John O'Connor; John Paul O'Connor)
