The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138735 Message #3176602
Posted By: Musket
26-Jun-11 - 05:56 AM
Thread Name: Do purists really exist?
Subject: RE: Do purists really exist?
Spence, Spense, Spens.
The official one is that one there...
Or is it the other one?
You know, since hearing Martin Simpson's latest version, I have changed "young man" to "aged Lord" hence perpetuating the oral tradition.
Mind you, even that term meant something else when I was a teenager.
I like the bit above about two songs on a stage. When I started in folk clubs, all the local ones did that. I had been going to clubs for a couple of years before encountering a more singaround club. So if I were being purist, I would say that if you don't do two songs on a stage, it is not a folk club. Yet others may say that a folk club is about playing where you sit, one at a time going round in a circle.
Got it! Purist means pandering to your own nostalgia.