The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116310   Message #2502048
Posted By: Phil Edwards
26-Nov-08 - 10:03 AM
Thread Name: How traditional should it be?
Subject: RE: How traditional should it be?
Sminky - there were no consequences at all, since I was talking hypothetically.

Glueman said that "claiming one modern sensibility rehashing old material is more folkish than another" is "bunkum", on the basis that it's possible to pass off new material as trad. But what you can pass off as trad is irrelevant. It's possible to pass off new material as Hank Williams - that doesn't mean that it's "bunkum" to claim that some songs are by Hank Williams and some aren't.