The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4914   Message #27474
Posted By: Jon W.
06-May-98 - 11:05 AM
Thread Name: The demise of Folk Music, Part II
Subject: RE: The demise of Folk Music, Part II
Well I have to agree that "California Dreaming" is very singable which I think is the first qualification for a song to enter the difficult-to-define category of folk music. Being a scoutmaster, I've given some thought to the problem of getting scouts to sing when they're not interested in anything other than heavy metal, and I've concluded that we can't sing heavy metal around the campfire because it sounds pretty bad when it has no highly amplified instrumental accompaniment (actually it sounds pretty bad to me when it does have accompaniment, but that's another story).