The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54679   Message #848294
Posted By: UB Ed
16-Dec-02 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Do You Know The Glengarry Bhoys?
Subject: RE: Do You Know The Glengarry Bhoys?
Quite possible, Don, a valid concern, yet we can't guide them all can we?

My view is such a presentation provides yet another opportunity for folks never before exposed to the genre to listen from a more familiar perspective and, hopefully, be interested enough to dig down a bit deeper for the root music. I guess my best analogy would be what the British invasion did for bluesmen in the US south. It may have taken a while, but a number of us dug deeper, thanks to the initial exposure.

I think there is something positive about presenting traditional music in a modern style.

(Was there a band behind that fiddle player?)

(By the way, old son, just finished listening to "Photograph" coming back from lunch. MOST EXCELLENT.)

Ed