The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65104   Message #1069618
Posted By: greg stephens
10-Dec-03 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: UK young folk awards
Subject: RE: UK young folk awards
Well I've just tuned in. There was someone playing Beaumont Rag on the guitar which certainly reminded me how much I like Doc watson. And curmudgeonly old fogey as I am, it set me a-musing..so why didnt Mike Harding play the Doc Watson recording? I always used to wonder why they played kenny ball records all the time on the radio in the 60's, when they could have used records of the guys who actually made the jazz in the first place. It wasnt as if this guitarist was actually developing the tune in some innovatory way, he just played it, not as well as Doc watson. Strange.(of course, there were a couple of slippy runs in it that Doc didnt play, I should add for fairness).