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Thread #155357   Message #3661361
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
17-Sep-14 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
well lets suppose you are right jim. stinkers like me and musket have subverted the folk movement. its all our fault - donovan, simon and garfunkel, bod dylan, the beatles, ralph mctell.

everybody thought folk music was fred jordan and ewan - but sadly two villains were at work -undermining western civilisation....breathing our subtle poison into the ears of the young and impressionable.

the folk clubs were our last territorial demand, and we have taken them by blitzkrieg. saturation bombing with versions of streets of london.

perhaps you need to think up a new strategy, a citadel from which to defend English folk music from hobbledehoys like that musket character. he is not to be trusted -even as we speak he is trying to remember the words to the boxer.