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Thread #155357   Message #3669863
Posted By: MGM·Lion
17-Oct-14 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
The ones more likely to do that are, surely, those who think that the Yankee-accented crooning Geordie Jimmy Nail* has the remotest connection with any sort of folk-inspired canon. (Abe Lincoln again ["People who like this sort of thing..."]; but what on earth you see in that particular manifestation, MikeL, I genuinely cannot fathom.) Our traditional weights & measures are surely not to be trusted to those who can't tell Streets Of London [fine a poem as it is] from a folksong.

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*And what on earth happened to that gutsy actor he was once?