'It's all right to like...'

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 06:40 PM

Well, it is certainly OK to watch RFD-TV!

Here are just a few that I have enjoyed watching the last couple of years

Porter, didn't seem like anyone had more fun (Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy!)
Dolly, Now there's a couple of big ones . . . Porter and Dolly, that is
Wilburn Brothers, ran Porter a close second on having a good time
Loretta, when country was country
Sam & Kirk McGee, guitar wizards, short on talk
Maybelle and Sara Carter, nothing else to say, is there?
Chet Atkins, played like you'd expect Chet to play and even sang one
Senator Robert Byrd, fiddlin' away
Little Wendy Holcomb, played banjo and guitar with flair and flash,sadly left us too soon
Del Reeves, ah, That Girl on the Billboard!
Becky Schlegel, Minnesota girl who isn't a star, but should be
Don Williams, before he got his hat

Charlie Waller, Jimmie Davis, Grandpa Jones, Ramona Jones, Faron Young, Stringbean, Lefty Frizzell, Don Bowman, Michael Martin Murphey, Hank Snow, The Whites, The Browns, The Martins (Gospel singers from Arkansas),Baxter Black, Bill Monroe, Webb Pierce, well, you get the picture. That's not even counting the tractors, trains, horses and mules, FFA kids, even the Mean Farmer, though I have not seen him lately.

Yep, it's OK to watch RFD-TV. I even tell people I watch it.

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 07:57 AM

I have to confess that this thread title grates on my nerves a bit. Why should anyone have to gain the approval of others to like something? I happen to have very strong likes and dislikes but I don't give a toss what others might think of my preferences. I do, however, take exception to the 'I like all types of music' types taking over folk clubs. This is not because I disapprove of their wishy washy tastes but because I go to folk clubs to listen to folk music. This has got nothing to do with other people's preferences and every thing to do with categories and context. I doubt whether anyone would be very happy if they bought a book on, say, ancient history and when they got it home it turned out to be about gardening!

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 08:12 AM

GUEST DB - There are a lot of people out there who are not comfortable of they don't 'belong' and, in my experience, that can mean going along with the likes and dislikes of the majority of those around them. I have had an almost aggressive reaction from a work colleague when I have stated that I don't like chocolate (absolutely true - she just couldn't believe that someone didn't like the stuff!). I also was made to feel like an outsider because I have no interest in sports. When working in a small group eight hours a day that can get quite uncomfortable. This happens from childhood and there are usually one or two leaders whose dictates tend to be accepted by the group.

I agree with you about non folk taking over folk clubs. Happened to the one I went to at one time. Pissed me off no end and finally led to the disintegration of the group. We then started it up again elsewhere and, because I and a friend were the founders, the non folkies stayed away.

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 08:45 AM

Of course the very notion that our taste in music or other things should be governed by worrying about whether "it's all right to like" is insane and unhealthy. That was why I initiated this thread in the first place by posting -

"Chucking out the old newspapers today I noticed a headline on a piece about changes in musical tastes, saying "It's all right to like..." some out of fashion musicians. And I started thinking how I loathe that kind of idea that our tastes in music, or in anything else, should be governed by whether "it's all right" to like something, rather than whether we actually do like that thing."

The only things that it's not "all right to like" is whewhen stuff like hating and despising other people who don't deserve it and that is involved. I suppose there are some songs and some performers that would fall into that category.

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 07:24 AM

Dear jacqui c,

I know what you mean about not fitting in - I've felt like that all my life. Strangely, though, I find that it doesn't bother me too much at my advanced age (57). The other side of the coin appears to be that other people tend to respect you more if you are your own person. Actually, I've got more friends now than I've ever had in my life.
I worked for the same company for 17 years and often felt that I was 'the odd one out'. Last year this company finally made me redundant (I saw it coming a long way off). What has surprised and gratified me is many of my ex-colleagues, especially some of the younger ones (who I rather assumed thought of me as an old fart) have made a big effort to keep in touch - they regularly phone, e-mail, visit and invite me to evenings out. Although I can, at times, be a bit of a stroppy, cantankerous old fart I always tried to treat these younger people with the respect that they deserved. We may not share the same tastes in music, clothes etc. but it just goes to show that you don't have to be a slave to fashion in order to be liked.

Subject: RE: 'It's all right to like...'
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 11:03 PM

Sorry DB. 57 does not qualify for Old Farthood. You have at least another ten or fifteen years. Lord knows we can't have the multitude of 55+ males on Mudcat assuming it is time for them to be cranky. They are barely through their ToyBoy years.

As to "It's all right...", I believe it is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the folk purists who consider the Kingston Trio et al part of the Folk Scare and not "real" folkies. I too have lived too long to give a damn whether or not someone "approves" of my choice in music, movies, TV, books, men, dogs, cars or whatever.

I share my love of Vaudeville, Music Hall and Parlor Songs with a number of very talented people on Mudcat and at assorted festivals.