The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157386   Message #3715029
Posted By: Lighter
07-Jun-15 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: Still wondering what's folk these days?
Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
> deficient in clarity of articulation

I find this to be true of Loreena McKennitt as well. I can't make out half of what she's singing. It's pleasant as aural wallpaper, however.

Perhaps this style - as though the singer is a "maid in a beautiful dream" talking in her sleep - is yet another marker of "folk."