The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5875   Message #33740
Posted By: Doctor John
30-Jul-98 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: Has anyone the courage now? (Moses Asch)
Subject: RE: Has anyone the courage now?
I like your replies but I meant a different sense ... There's a lot of good stuff out there but it's being sat on by dogs in mangers who won't release it. Collectors can't buy it and the artists who recorded good honest stuff (England's best!)don't get the royalties. If a record company withdraws a title surely the copyright should revert solely to the artist. Now we need someone like Moe Asch who will copy a mint LP and release the music to us on CD and pay the artist royalties and damn the company who have withdrawn or won't release the originals. Yes I agree the music is sanitized all the time. Did you hear that interview with Pete Seeger on the Mike Harding show?!!I saw two young girls in Exeter a while back singing "This Land..." sweetly and playing a 12 stringer with 6 strings. "Where did you get that", said I. "From this book", said one. "What about the last two verses?" "There aren't any more" "Do you know who wrote it?" "No".