The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90162 Message #1706613
Posted By: Rasener
30-Mar-06 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Should we try to be 'original'?
Subject: RE: Should we try to be 'original'?
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to realize that folk musicians have always expressed their own interpretation of a song. That's why there are so many variants to most songs. People who try to sing a particular song exactly as it was recorded (in a book or on record) are humorously copying an "original" version of a traditional song with many other "original" versions. Folk music isn't the poor man's karaoke.
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I have heard over the last few months, a few songs that were highly popular at the time and have been taken by the folk performers and re-done in folkie and sympathetic way and I have to say, each one was brilliant.
They are
"Sweet Child Of Mine" by Guns & Roses
"Something Else" by Eddie Cochran
"Hey Joe" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Each one was done by a different performer. I love those songs and to hear them in a folkie way was just magic. I would love to hear more songs done in the same way. I guess a few of you have seen other numbers done like this.
Don't anybody mention the Streets of London othewise I will go bonkers. :-)