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Thread #112597 Message #2385074
Posted By: Jack Campin
09-Jul-08 - 04:32 PM
Thread Name: Does it matter what music is called?
Subject: RE: Does it matter what music is called?
I've heard "Music for a Found Harmonium" in folk sessions many times. Bit of a bummer if all you've got is a D whistle, and it isn't one of my favourite tunes, but I have yet to hear anyone suggest it shouldn't be played. I've heard nothing by Seth Lakeman covered in a session as yet.
The things that ticks me off about this particular misascription is that there is already a perfectly good category that Lakeman's music fits into. It's middle-of-the-road pop. There are hundreds of other performers working in the same genre who feel no need to say that what they're doing is folk and that people whose primary interest is in Shetland fiddle music or source recordings of Child ballads have some sort of obligation to buy their stuff. Apparently we're supposed to rush out and buy Lakeman's CDs and go to his concerts because his parents knew Bert Lloyd or something. Fuck that.