"Lankum"
We've seen Lankum live and spoken to at least one of them - the group summed themselves up in an interview they gave to The Irish Times "We aim to produce a sound"
I accept that - it's not what folk or any type of song should be about
Doran is new to me - if you are suggesting what has been put up as good folksinging, I would be interested to here it
This is the flaw fallacy that you have to ge there to know how good these people are - if you tell me they are, I beg to differ
I suggest you dig around some of the recordings made around the time Ewan recorded the Riverside album - everybody was "finding their feet" then
Ewan once told me that wne he started singing long ballads in clubs their length worried him
When he sang his longest, 'Gil Morris', he would break it up in two halves - one before the interval, the other in the second half
He stopped when an audience member said to him; "For fecks sake will you ever sing that ballad in one go - it's like waiting for the other shoe to drop"
All of them were experimenting - what songs, the length of songs, accompaniments, introductions.... all experimental
Jim