The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102379   Message #2074995
Posted By: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
12-Jun-07 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: The National Trust. Folk CD
Subject: RE: The National Trust. Folk CD
Hmmm... doesn't the NT own John Lennon's auntie's suburban semi? However, Greg, you make very fair points. I just think that someone may hear a CD like this, decide they want to hear more, say, Waterson Carthy or Nancy Kerr & James Fagan and go out and buy an album. They may explore further, and at some point decide they'd like to find out about English fiddle tunes... and hopefully someone like your good self could point them in the right direction. Actually, could you, please, if you have a few moments?!

You see, this English folk business is a relatively new thing to me, getting to hear it via the deeply impure(!) psychedelic folk, folk rock etc which I still enjoy. I'm hugely enjoying much of what I'm hearing and only regret I never heard it years ago. And I think, warts and all, flawed or not, CDs like this have to be a good thing in that they may start other people on the voyage of deeply pleasurable discovery I'm currently on. I've even started buying secondhand vinyl again!

And sorry, I'm going wildly off topic with all this self disclosure..

Cheers
Nigel