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Diamond Steps in the Folk Process (54* d) RE: Steps in the Folk Process 26 Feb 02


There's something very interesting about music from the obscure past. It, I suppose, conjures the same initial sensations as discovering some ancient prose, or a long dead relatives diary. However anything we get our hands on today is pretty well stepped on. It wasn't until our recent past, the last hundred and fifty to two hundred years at best, that any portion of society thought it was important to perserve such things, and only very recently has it has been done with any accuracy. For the folk scene today, the bigger portion of us are not listening to voices from the past, we are listening to songs vague enough to make some sense in our society. And so it goes with mass communication. It gets more watered down with time. Here's to the less defined. Hit Me Diamond


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