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Thread #155357 Message #3668077
Posted By: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
11-Oct-14 - 08:46 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Even at my most knowingly daft & facetious, there is always a core serious subtext,,,, that's how my personality works... can't help it...
So, I'd find it an interesting 'academic' exercise to hear just how one of the better Elvis impersonators would tackle an unaccompanied solo set of some of the dustier old UK trad songs.....
But he'd have to take it seriously, no mucking about and mugging to the audience for cheap comic affect..............
He could even try doing it as Elvis putting on a British accent to add variables to the experiment......????
Well... it might edify or amuse some of us for 10 minutes...