Female folkies are beautiful!

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:28 PM

I've noticed that some women AND MEN positively glow when they sing. They may be physically attractive otherwise, or may just look like most people. (Most folks have some attractive features and others that aren't so attractive.) But get them into a song, and they can shine like diamonds!

...hmmm - sounds like a good subject for a song! :-)

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:12 PM

Yep Allan you certainly are right!

I think it has somehting to do with where the music is coming from. The popular country stars certainly are svelt. They are entertainers. When I see them though I don't get the feeling that their music or their appearance is coming from within. They may not wear rhinestones and wigs anymore, but they are sitll putting on a personae.

Contrast this with folkies! Often, an inner glow, conviction, connection with the muse, or something seems to surround them (men or women). This makes them beautiful beyond compare!

For evidence of this just look at the pictures from the getaway by Bill D: Lisa Null caught in bliss between two harps; A profile of Jeri in soft light; Judy Cook singing; Dani concentrating; PJ at one with the Bodrhan; The permanent smile on the Pattons faces; Vixen and Reynard singing; Jen with guitar; the list goes on and on.

What beauty! It encourages! It inspires!

(It makes me wonder what an ugly old f**t like me is doing there) :-)

JAB

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:08 PM

Or think about Queen, when they first came out. Freddie Mercury had a BFA in Art, drummer Roger Taylor has a Master's degree in Biology, bass player John Deacon has a Master's with Honors in Electric engineering, and guitarist Brian May has a Ph.D in astrophysics. They suffered through everything from poverty to Brian's life-threating bout of hepatitus...Just because you look flashy on stage oand you're famous, doesn't mean there isn't something deeper just under the surface. Look for it next time you watch MTV...wait, why are you watching it in the first place?

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:07 PM

Poor dears! In their world they get to see the wrappings, but in my world I see their souls. And I am madly in love with what I see. Just thinking back on the Getaway, I got to look inside of Lisa Null, Karen Kobela, Caroline Paton, and Lani Herrmann as they shared songs with us that could only come from that place where few get to go. And I am in love with those women and the absolute beauty they project. P.J., Jenny, Judy, Dani, Kath W, Tinker, Rita, Sondra, Vixen, Bonnie, Jennifer.................on and on. Only the lucky few get to share in this wealth. We folkies are lucky people.

Mick

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:05 PM

Absolutely right AllanC. But a pretty woman will have my undivided and immediate attention, regardless of talent. Aint nature a wonderful thing? LOL yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 12:01 PM

HEY, they're not all brainless twits. Take a listen to Fiona Apple.

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Naemanson
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 11:37 AM

Ah, the sweet sound of the voice and the creative brush of fingers on an instrument makes up for any woman's inability to look like those pop stars. And their talent ensures that they will continue to be popular with us far longer than those pretty children that are such a flash in the pan.

And always remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Once you get past the stereotyped imagery imposed on the masses by the movies and TV you can look deeper into a person and see that he or she has experienced life as it is meant to be lived. They have laughed, cried, worked hard, played gently, loved and lost, loved and kept, felt the lift of the seasons changing and can put all of that into the music that flows from the soul.

Let's see those pretty children try that!

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 11:19 AM

Video Killed the Radio Star.

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 11:08 AM

Is this the fault of the pop video/MTV etc? In the "good old days" singers were judged on their sound over the airwaves and on shellac, as well as by a smaller live audience. Most of the great women jazz and blues singers wouldn't have been successful catwalk models (in the case of Mama Thornton she'd have terrified the horses) but who cared?
I'd rather have Ella, Billie (H),Sarah, Etta,Bessie, Ma,etc.than Britney, Kylie,Louise etc, but the youngsters are good to watch with the sound off!
RtS (sad old git)

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: kendall
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 11:01 AM

No arguement here!

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: NicP
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 11:00 AM

With ref to Jed's comment about following women with beautiful voices to the ends of the earth, I heard a woman sing at Sidmouth in 1990 and decided to marry her before I'd seen her. Were still together.

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Jed at Work
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 10:55 AM

"a woman who can put her heart into a good folksong can get my attention every time"

agreed Allan! There are a few female voices I've heard for the first time and I thought to myself, 'I don't care what this woman looks like, I'd follow her to the ends of the earth!' Singing is all about opening a window to your heart, and there, afterall, is where beauty and grace live.

Subject: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 10:50 AM

Lately I have been noticing yet another way in which folk music is "alternative". Take a look at virtually all of the female pop and country music stars. Nearly all of them got into the limelight not only because of their talents, but also because of their physical attributes. In my opinion some of them have far more of the latter than of the former.

One of the things I truly admire about folkies is that physical appearance seems to have little to do with their enjoyment of female artists. This is not to say that the male audience has no appreciation for physical beauty. It just seems to me that, for the most part, it is about the music.

Personally, a woman who can put her heart into a good folksong can get my attention every time.