The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3663190
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
23-Sep-14 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
nobody throws vegetables in England.

from the influences you mention I doubt if you would be ethnic sounding enough for the traddy crowd in England. basically you have to swallow the gospel as proposed by Ewan to propitiate them.

independent spirits such as your own Don, people who have striven creatively to find their own understanding - well you may be tolerated, but you'd never be part of the gang.

a very narrow pathway of conformity is the only way. the same songs delivered as much as possible in the same way. miserable sods really - you sound far too nice.