No twisting Vic - it is not a folk song, it does not sound like a folk song and if anybody came onto the scene expecting folk songs to sound like tat they would have been conned
You don't "compare it to "the average pop song today" - you compare it to the music you are attempting to promote.
"Why is this such an obsession with some folk enthusiasts .?"
Because the scene is over-0run by such idiocies as:
"You can't seal music into a mythical past, it"
There is nothing "mythical" about folk song - there os over a century's research into a very real genre - libraries of books written and thousands of miles of recordings of it.
I is a beautiful art form - as is oera, and equally as important - moreso, when you consider that it is the cultural expression of a people who largely have been ignored as creative.
I didn't comment on the quality of the particular piece as, as Raggy suggested, I find it a catchy piece, as I do 'Puttin' on the Ritz' (though I much prefer the 'Young Frankenstein' version
Nomatter what the aims of the performer, it is not, in any shape or form, folk - not in a thousand years, and, just like a Chinese meal, will have disappeared after a few belches
If that's what passes for folk you may as well forget the scene altogether
MacColl one told me in an interview that he believed the only thing that would ever kill off folk song was if it ever fell into the hands of people who didn't like it
I'm beginning to understand what he is getting at
Jim Carroll