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GUEST,Adam Smith Fashionable Folk (22) Fashionable Folk 10 Nov 10

Vaguely nteresting article in this Saturday's Spectator about Fashionable Folk music.


fashionable folk

Nice to see Karine Polwart get a mention amongst the usual suspects.

Is folk fashionable? It always seems to be bubbling away just under the surface, there always seems to be articles like this, once every few months or so. I guess with Mumford & Sons being big and Laura Marling, maybe right now the folk sound (note I said the folk sound rather than just folk) is fashionable. Is this the same with other genres? Do jazzers always see jazz articles saying how some jazzboy is the next big thing? I guess to my ears this hypothetical next big jazzboy thing would probably sound so mainstream I wouldn't notice. MOR AOR with a tinkly piano, perhaps. A bit like Mumford & Sons. MOR AOR with a tinkly banjo.

Nothing against M&S btw. Or for them.

(MOR AOR = Middle Of the Road Adult Orientated Rock)

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