The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54426   Message #844905
Posted By: Reynolds
10-Dec-02 - 05:36 PM
Thread Name: Howzabout folk music on the radio?
Subject: RE: Howzabout folk music on the radio?
According to Guest Bill Kennedy: "I'll Fly Away and Amazing Grace, and even Down in the Valley to Pray are, actually, if you care to know the truth, Hymns, not folk songs."

Guest Bill Kennedy may think he knows what a folk song is, but according to the late Alan Lomax, who I think is a bigger authority than even Guest Bill Kennedy, traditional hymns are but one of many different forms of folk songs.