folk songs are about content rather than form or repertoire rather than style, this is where i differ from jim bainbridge, who stated recntly in Living tradtion magazine, that the marsden rattlers were more concerned with style than repertoire, to be precise he states.. quote
we developed a much wider view of folk music its place in the community and essentially it was and still is a style rather than a repertoire.
in my opinion this is rubbish.
so as far as i am concerned if i sing lily the pink in a folky style[ really , i thought there were quite a number of folky style] on a concertina and without amplification and in the style of bert lloyd its a folk song?
what utter codswallop