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Hey everyone! This is Prompt Queens reporting from Folk Alliance International! This is Hope in the field submitting the first of six field reports where I interview 6 artists from Folk Alliance. Our first field report is Colorado songwriter, Matthew Fowler. You can find him on Instagram: @matthewkfowler His website is: www.matthewfowlermusic.com

New episode one day late but still awesome! Hopie had some post-production google search How Tos to get through in order to post this show, and I think we'll all agree it was worth the wait! The prompt is Fireplace but don't expect a controlled burn when the Prompt Queens are on fire. Write songs, everybody!

The Edit Episode has Hope and Emily revisiting old songs from the podcast and taking a stab at editing. Hope chose her song from the "Tents" episode and Emily chose her song from the "Trains" episode. Today you can listen in and here the old version, the new version and talk about what it's like reworking old work. It's the last episode of 2022 and next year starts a whole new chapter in Prompt Queens! Thanks for listening and we hope you bring your creativity with you into the new year!

Hello Prompt Team! It's Thursday and that means we've got a hot fresh episode of Prompt Queens for you and the prompt is, yes, America's forgotten pastime except for when you remember it again on a Saturday with nothing to do because it's fun, the stakes are low, and you're dying to put on used shoes, you guessed it: bowling. This episode has so much more than just strikes and gutters. Buckle up.

It's a new day, a new prompt so it means it's a new episode of Prompt Queens. Yay. It'll take you places.

Ooohhhh, there's so much possibility that it feels like an ocean of prompts all in one prompt? But is it, though? We hope you enjoy this episode of Prompt Queens.

We're back! We did it. We knew we'd come back and now we have and we've written songs and we're so glad you've joined us. This week's prompt was: Graduation.

We are back with our first pandemic episode recorded over Zoom.  This week we take a stab at Western Meadowlarks.  A figurative stab at the prompt Western Meadowlark.  It's good to be back.  We missed you!

This is not a Debbie Gibson episode (though, note to self for later), but we do write to a title she used: Out of the Blue.  As always, two different takes on a theme, two different approaches, a unified love of jokes and nonsense.

It's good work if you can find it, but Hope & Emily write pretty bleak songs about factory work this week: one historical and one contemporary.  You can write your own song about the factory and send it in!

Do we apologize in advance? Do we write a disclaimer?  IDK, you can see what the title of this episode is.  You know what you're getting into.  Despite the terrible prompt and questionable songs, it's a pretty good episode.  You should write your own terrible song to this terrible prompt and share it with us!

Special guest Bob Hillman joins Hope & Emily in Beaver Crossing to sing earnest political protest songs a la Woody Guthrie.  Do you think the Prompt Queens can pull this one off? Do you think you can? Give it a shot!  Give this episode a listen!

Hope and Emily celebrate Valentines Day in song, each with their own unique take on the day.  Is it sentimental? Is it cynical? Listen and find out, AND send in your own song!

Hope and Emily (figuratively) tackle Alanis Morissette, although if they were to ever meet her they might be so excited that they do tackle her.  No they wouldn't, Alanis.  No one will tackle you.  Either way, as admirers of her music, the Prompt Queens had a great time trying to write a song for her.  You should write one too!

We kick off a new year and a new season with the prompt And in That Moment.  You should write a song in THIS moment and send it in to us.

Where did 2019 go?  It went into a ton of songs.  Prompt Queens wrote their butts off this year an in this episode, they recap the highlights.  And hats of to Thad, the long suffering pretengineer for cutting together this episode.

Ho, ho, ho and hallelujah!  Hope & Emily sing a couple Christmas tunes for you this week and wish you and yours a great year's end no matter what or how you celebrate and encourage you to keep writing.

Okay, dirty birds, it's time for clean living.  Hope & Emily write songs about what it means to live clean.  Write your own and send it in!

Gobble, gobble, Prompt Team.  Happy Thanksgiving.  We are thankful that you keep listening and writing along.  Here are our Thanksgiving offerings.  We'd love to hear yours!

Let's play Twister. Let's play Risk.  Let's write a song about board games.  Done.  Check out how Emily & Hope did in this episode of Prompt Queens.  Then write your own!

Adios, summer.  Not so fast, winter.  Let's pause and appreciate autumn, shall we? We shall.  In the episode Hope & Emily write songs about fall and record the episode in front of a live audience. Good times!

Here's a follow up our smash hit episode 44: Start of Movie--it's episode 45: End of Movie! Hope and Emily write songs to play as the credits roll. You should write one too and send it in!

Emily and Hope write songs for the start of a movie.  What movie?  You know, the next blockbuster high school hit that starts with a morning montage.  What's it sound like? You're going to have to listen and find out. AND write your own song and send it in.

Two turntables and a microphone.  Two birds with one stone.  Two hooky choruses and no verses.  The latter is what Emily & Hope tackled this week: they each took a stab at two choruses, and two choruses alone.  They have vowed never to do that again, but you should listen to hear what they came up with AND you should write your own hooky choruses and send them in!

Hope & Emily wrote new songs and then some.  They crack some jokes and then some.  The Prompt Queens talk about songwriting and then some.  They encourage you to write a long at home and send it in...(wait for it)...and then some.

Is it a razor? Is it the tool you use to draw a line? Is it a goody-goody?  Listen and find out how Emily and Hope interpreted this prompt.  THEN, write your own song and send it in!

Hope and Emily write songs about fruit, share their favorite smoothie recipes, try on new accents, and discuss songwriting and the creative process. You should write along at home!

Hope & Emily pay homage to an amazing lady of the 80s, rocker Pat Benetar.  Do things go a little off the rails?  Slightly, but don't they always?  The Prompt Queens write two songs a la Pat.  They talk songwriting.  They welcome their pal Lisa into the studio.  They crack each other up and they invite you to write along at home.

Do you like nautical puns? Do you like historical dramas? Do you like your songs rife with metaphors and tragedies? Then have we got a show for you!  Emily & Hope tackle Titanic on this week's episode.  Got a song about a sinking ship? Send it in!

Can we GET more 90s than this episode?  All we want is to feel this way and walk on the ocean.  This week Hope & Emily write songs a la Toad the Wet Sprocket.  You should write one too and send it in.

You know who is just like Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, and The Temptations?  Prompt Queens.  This week Emily and Hope try their hands at writing a song for Motown.  

Tis the season for sending the children back into the loving arms of their educators. Hope & Emily write odes to school days on this week's episode. You should write one, too!  Send it in.

We're way down yonder in the minor key this week.  It's well-worn territory for Hope and new terrain for Emily.  What about you?  Have you written in a minor key?  Write one and send it in.  It could a real feeler about love and escape (like Hope's) or a horror story (like Emily's) about...well...you're going to have to listen.

Hoist the mainsail! Swab the poop deck! Hope & Emily have written seafaring songs for this episode.  Are they about the literal sea?  Is the sea a metaphor?  You're going to have to listen and find out.  And then write your own seafaring song and send it in!

This week we trot out tunes for the younger set.  Maybe one takes a dark turn.  Maybe one inventories the spice cabinet. You're going to have to listen and find out. Then write your own kids' song and send it in. You can do it.  It's fun!

Listeners have been writing along at home. Let's celebrate two more listener submissions!

Here comes the brides. Hope and Emily try their hands at wedding songs. Would you walk down the aisle to this nonsense?  No? Then write your own wedding song! And send it to us!

Listeners have been writing along at home.  Let's celebrate two more listener submissions!

Nonverbal prompt say what?  This week Hope & Emily use a video prompt!  They watch the "Wall of Women" scene from this season's Grey's Anatomy with the volume off and write the song that they think should be played beneath it.  They want you to write one too and send it in!

Listeners have been writing along at home.  Let's celebrate two listener submissions!

Guests: Victoria Vox, Hope Dunbar Hosts: Stuart Yoshida, Doug Brown YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBPlOeJiuU As the heat and allergies of summer roll in, we welcome back two great singer-songwriters to the show: Victoria Vox and Hope Dunbar! We follow a circuitous path while we talk about ukulele travels, tackling writers block, ideas on expanding listernship, collaborating on songwriting, and much more!  Shoutouts: • Swallow Hill for hosting the OokTown Podcast at the 12th Annual Denver UkeFest - especially Lindsay Corbin and all the hard working folks at Swallow Hill that made the festival great!  • Congrats to Na Hoku Hanohano winners Herb Ohta Jr. for instrumental album of the year, Kris Fuchigami for instrumental composition of the year for his song “Life Is,” and Taimane for performer of the year - all fabulous ukulele players!  Links:  • Victoria Vox: https://victoriavox.com/  • UKE Magazine — World of Ukes: http://worldofukes.co.uk/uke-magazine-shop  • Prompt Queens: http://promptqueens.libsyn.com/  • Hope Dunbar: http://www.hopedunbarmusic.com/  • Star Belle Ukulele Band: https://www.facebook.com/events/crescent-moon/star-belle-ukulele-band/1028167157273765/  • Take It Easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_It_Easy  • Mandy Harvey - Deaf Singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSWXzAnVe0  • Jackson Browne "Take It Easy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_It_Easy  • Carl Jung article: https://thefirstgates.com/2014/01/02/jungs-tower-simplicity-and-the-inner-life/ 

Hope & Emily set the podcast ablaze.  They don't need no water. They got a bad desire.  They went down, down, down and the flames went higher.  You get the idea.  The Prompt Queens write about fire, discuss songs, songwriting, and the creative process and invite you to write a long at home.  Submit your song and hear it on a Monday mini episode!

Listeners have been playing along at home.  Let's celebrate two listener submissions!

We are finally doing it!  This mini episode features 2 listener submissions. BLAM O.  Listen to what your fellow listeners have done with the prompts and send in your own song.  We can't wait to hear 'em!

Emily & Hope challenge themselves to write a song hooky enough that a crowd can join in and sing-a-long on first listen and then they enlist a crowd on which to test out the songs. Can you write a sing-a-long?  Try it out, man, and send it in!

Join Emily and Hope in a calming, quiet, relaxing journey into the heart of the prompt: rest. This episode has everything: dulcet tones, the tranquil tinkling of guitar strings, and peaceful banter.  If you have joined us before you know these are lies, except for the part about the prompt. Write your own song about rest and share it with us!

Hope and Emily tackle the 90s grunge of their (relative) youth. Put on your Docs, a baby doll dress, and a flannel shirt and get ready for songs written for Nirvana. And shenanigans.  And write along at home.  Songwriting is fun.

Hope & Emily are back, recording on the scene at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, TX.  This week's prompt is to set a timer and write a song in 45 minutes.  Tick-tock, you guys.  Tune in to hear the results AND write along at home!

Hope & Emily take a break.  They'll be back soon!

Last week Hope & Emily welcomed special guests Edie Carey and Sarah Sample to talk shop and play train songs. Hilarity ensued. Today we bring you Trains Part Two where the party continues.  Got a train song?  Send it in!  Don't have a train song? Write one and send it in!

Hope and Emily put a pin in their songs for Nirvana to bring in two very special guests Edie Carey and Sarah Sample.  There is so much WISDOM (and laughing and singing) in the recording that we decided to split it into two episodes.  Got a train song?  Play along at home and send it in!

Hope & Emily write a song for a broadway musical.  This episode is better than Cats.  You'll want to listen to it again and again. As always the Prompt Queens talk about songwriting and the creative process, and invite you to write along at home.

The Prompt Queens experience a dark night of the soul while writing about murder, but still manage to crack each other up.  Hope and Emily talk about the songwriting process, finding your writer's voice, and MURDER.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special episode with teacher, mentor, friend, and writer of SEVEN number one songs Steve Seskin. Steve gave Emily & Hope the prompt I'm Not Who I Used to Be and the three discuss the songwriting process and crack wise as usual.

They say good things come in threes, at least that what Hope says in her number song this week.  We prove it to be true because you get THREE SONGS this episode.  Emily & Hope write to the prompt: a number, and talk shop about songwriting.

It's been a long, long winter and the Prompt Queens team is ready for summer.  We tried to conjure it through songwriting.  Hear Hope and Emily play odes to warmer weather and discuss the songwriting process.  Then, write your own and send it in!

Blink and you'll miss 'em!  Emily & Hope write Prompt Queens theme songs.

Hope and Emily get their wires crossed and write to different prompts this week.  Who is shocked by this confusion?  Write in and tell us how shocked you are.  Hope writes about a movie and Emily writes about a book.  Then, they discuss the songwriting and creative process and invite you to write about a song, a book, or whatever you want.

What were they thinking? No one knows.  Not even them.  This week Hope & Emily write to the prompt Ralph Macchio. Listen and see how they fared.  Then, write your own Ralph Macchio song and send it in!

This week Hope & Emily write a song for the queen herself: Dolly Parton.  They hope you wrote one too.

Who better to write songs for boy bands than the moms of teenaged boys? We know things, you guys. Hope and Emily nail this week's prompt, share their insights on the songwriting process, and invite you to write along at home.

Does the title mean we continue to be in love with Tim Grimm or does it mean that this week's prompt is "staying in love" and Tim Grimm is our special guest?  Why not both?!  Join Emily, Hope, and special guest Tim Grimm for THREE songs, a scotch tasting, and a delightful conversation about the songwriting process.  You, dear listener, are invited to write along at home and send in your song to Prompt Queens.

Hope & Emily write to the prompt "if I had a dollar" and take you, dear listener, on a topsy turvy conversational journey through financial stability, leprechauns, and songwriting.

Hope & Emily get it DONE this week by writing to the prompt "done."  The episode is full of hijinx and hilarity mixed with a solid look at songwriting and the creative process.

It turns out there are many famous songs about Georgia.  Hope and Emily add two more to the pile and discuss how they came to be.

In this episode, we take a prompt from our niece--flying dogs.  Guess what: we nail it.

Hope & Emily write to the prompt "silver." Hilarity ensues, as does a great conversation about the writing process.

Emily and Hope write to the prompt "But she didn't".  They crack wise.  They overcome audio obstacles.  They discuss the writing process.