The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74323   Message #1295955
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
13-Oct-04 - 04:42 AM
Thread Name: Folk Artists - Opinions
Subject: RE: Folk Artists - Opinions
Jack Hudson- the greatest and most cruelly neglected talent in the English folk clubs. A once in a generation voice, stunning guitar style, a friendly nature, superb song writer and absolutely nowhere on any folk festival bill. Not even the ones in Ripley and at Stainsby , his local festivals book him. Meanwhile the critics dutifully cream their jeans over a gang of 1970 re-treads on the main stages of the big festivals like Cambridge and the Fleadh - many of whom have never darkened the doors of a folk club in their life and are only there cos their record companies can't flog their tedious wares. This is a guy who has given his life to the folk club movement in England, and never got a break.