Ok - we've had a go so far .........
Now, as I started the Thread - I wanted to know how long it would take before some of you started to put their own time contraints and parameters on how long it takes for a song to become accepted in the Folk Club Scene.Whilst some of you have sought to defend Tradition - which I applaude , are you tying yours (and our) hands somewhat in dismissing the Beatles ( timewise )and telling them to wait for other conditions to arise before they evolve into Folk Music.Then I suppose you may say that we MUST accept "The Flower of Scotland " / Ewan McColls songs etc.,as a bone Fida Folk Songs although they were getting written at roughly the same time as the Beatles were writing their songs .
Doesn't it tell us about the genre that we support "Folk" Music??
in that, Folk Music has minority appeal and "Pop" has Popular appeal to the general populate and never the twain shall meet ?.
Two of my favourites are "She's leaving Home " and "In My Life" the former of which should be attempted by all us Singer guitarist to appreciate the difficulties in playing such a seemingly easy - song and tune.
Martin Gibson - Well said re:- Sam Cahn - surely he relented / repented somewhere along the way.I hope so .