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Thread #109910   Message #2332866
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
04-May-08 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: Folk Weekend at Crich Tramway Museum
Subject: RE: Folk Weekend at Crich Tramway Museum
Nice seeing you again Sapper. We must get a good version of your song about the driver in the Great Train Robbery, Jack Mills together. Its a great idea for a song. there so many songs about bad guys. A great idea to write one about the victim. I was telling Hudson about your idea for a song and he was also intrigued and thought it a brilliant idea.

Print the words here or hereabouts. People ought to know about the idea. Some people who make a fortune out of folk music NEVER get an idea that good.

Folkiedave - we don't agree. we never shall. let's just agree to disagree.

It was a good day. A nice good humoured session in the pub afterwards as well.

Julie Felix is really a link to another generation. So many people 'do' Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie - because our generation heard them on firstly record, we don't really get it! This lady really 'uses' those songs. Watching her - one gets the vaguest inkling of what Woody must have been like in those Labour Union Halls. Real folk music. An actual dialogue with the audience. She really is quite excellent, and I was totally unprepared for what I saw.