Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,Bob Coltman Hackneyed Folk Songs (53* d) RE: Hackneyed Folk Songs 23 Feb 19


Speaking for the traditional folk songs: Funny thing. Once upon a time I may have wished not to hear again, say, Red River Valley or Blue Tail Fly, I find all I have to do is live another year or two and I begin to hear those old songs' inner beauty, sometimes in different terms than before.

So, me personally, I would hesitate to name any traditional song that I wouldn't like to hear over again, maybe after a little time's gone by. And so to remove any doubt I hasten to say I love the above two songs, Red River Valley and Blue Tail Fly, and pretty much all the rest, because they keep surprising me and revealing themselves to me little by little.

So it's a matter of perception.

About the other songs called "folk," contemporary folk and so on, I'm not sure I can say anything useful.

Bob


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
   * Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.