"I DO NOT KNOW WHAT A HONKIE IS? "
Really - yuo ahve lived a sheltered life !!
It's a black term for a white man - no need to shout
No - the lad wasn't singing in his own Cockney accent - that's the problem - very few people who sing American songs ever do
Apart from that, you haven't read a word I wrote and you will continue to regard Peggy (an American) as a hypocrite for singing American songs
I suggest if you ever meet her you should tell her what you think - she will probably think you are as daft as I do, though she's more good manners than I am so she won't tell you so.
Can you produce proof that Ewan (or anybody) ever suggested you should sing songs from your own street, area, town or county?
Won't hold my breath !
By the way, Peggy may have been born in New York, but she was educated in Massachusetts and she traveller the world, including Russia and China, before settling in England with Ewan, where she lived most of her life
As a child her family welcomed singers and musicians from all over America to their home - they had a live in home help, Elizabeth Cotten, a singer and guitarist from North Carolina, who taught Peggy to play and gave her her songs, including 'Freight Train'
When Ewan died, she moved to North Carolina and is now living in Oxford
A chance to have picked up more accents than most people
Now, if you have nothing sensible to add - I really think we are finished
Jim Carroll