The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113491   Message #2415594
Posted By: Art Thieme
16-Aug-08 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: RE: have the American audiences gone?
Subject: RE: RE: have the AMERICAN audiences gone?
John Hardly,

You are correct. The story in the songs from history are where it was always at for me.--- At the same time. I enjoy listening to a hot picker the way I felt terribly privileged to be gifted with watching Michael Jordan or Michael Phelps or the 2005 Chicago White Sox series winning mastery of everything baseball--from the execution of the basics to the four complete game victories by the pitchers to win the Series!!

Still, every track on all my recordings was only me singing with my instruments---except for one track on my second LP in 1979 where Cindy Mangsen sang a harmony. WHY?   Because that's what folk means to me! The rest isn't wrong. But it is sad to see what I feel is important marginalized by the listeners of today.

That's my take ---once again! John H.--you be correct.

Art