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Thread #90547 Message #1717835
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
14-Apr-06 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: Is folk music selling out?
Subject: RE: Is folk music selling out?
I agree with Martin---especially in his first post to this thread. Nothing has sold out. But it sure is different now than when I was doing what I was absolutely positive was the real thing---the real McCoy. Well, not even Deforest Kelley was the "real McCoy"----he was just THAT McCoy! And now he's dead...
Still I only considered myself to be a folksinger about 60% of time. The rest of the time I wasn't singing folksongs. But I liked those songs too.
As I've said, "The more things change, the more they get different!"----And that is in spite of the way we/I wanted things to be---and how much we/I preferred the old days or the old music or the old morality or that good old time religion!