The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44224   Message #1606235
Posted By: Bob Bolton
16-Nov-05 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: Who Killed Folk Music?
Subject: RE: Who Killed Folk Music?
G'day Art (you'll have to get someone to bake you a new cookie ...!),

Springhill Mine Disaster is Peggy's ...

The first time I heard Ewan's love song to Peggy: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ... sung on an Australian television program ... about 1963, by Martyn Wyndham-Read, I was stunned by its simple and honest expression of deep emotion. That's what folk music can do!

What Roberta Flack ... and the recording studio ... makes of it is pop ... but pretty good pop! Ewan's words can still survive and be cherished by the folk ...

Regard(les)s,

Bob