The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99963   Message #1999711
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Mar-07 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Subject: RE: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
If an electrical switch is involved it ain't folk singing

So we've got to sing in the dark, have we? Or maybe by candlelight.
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Robert Johnson because I don't think he was all that good.(Peace) "Because I don't like the way he sang and played" would be about personal taste, and no one can dictate that. "I don't think he was all that good" makes a claim that goes beyond that.

I think Mark Twain's comment "Wagner's Music is Better Than it Sounds" encapsulates the right attitude to take about stuff we don't personally like but which clearly possess some kind of excellence in the view of people whose views are to be respected.