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Thread #12049   Message #92963
Posted By: Art Thieme
06-Jul-99 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: Folkies vs Singer/Songwriters
Subject: RE: Folkies vs Singer/Songwriters
Just follow your bliss, folks. Do what you love and don't give a darn. Listen to all the types of songs you enjoy. Life is too short to bother with the stuff that doesen't move you. Personally, I always did mostly trad songs--story songs from the depths of history. But I listened to jazz 50% of the time & songwriters work that, to me, might've sounded tradittional the other 50% of the time. (Also listened to classical and pop and John MacComack bluegrass & cajun (pronounced "ca-hoon" in Mexico ;-) old-timey and hardinger and bagpipes and jugbands the other 50% of the time. But where Craig Johnson and Woody were concerned, well, they never, ever hardly didn't write any bad songs I don't think---and they always sound at least 75 more % points like the trad songs.

We all know what we like! Heck, one or two even like "Waltzing With Bears" and Richard Simmons videos. If that's your bag, go for it.

Art (yet again)