I thought Dave did a good job of putting over the arguement against.
The program format was biased in favour of the company spokesman.
And by using that format the Official line was given a deal more reasonble feeling than you would have gotten if there was an opportunity for dave to come back and challenge the information given by the spokeperson.
HHHmmmmmm.
The Format of the song extract sounded no more traditional to me than all around my hat by Steeleye.
The arrangement etc did not conjure up finger in the ear type performance at all.
Is that what the Trad/not trad arguement boiled down to?
If twas a trad story, and Mr lakeman wrote it in his own style and borrowed an old tune that he then arranged.
And spliced it all together. I am really sorry and mean no offence but that does sound a bit like what I am told others do.
frankly if I didnt know what a huge amount of indignation it has caused to some of you on here(sorry for making fun of your genuinely held beliefs)I would have said it was just a good song with a decent beat.
But not what I would want to hear at our local folk club on a singers night.
Back to Tim the troll then.
If I arranged and recorded a Traditional (as defined by the majority veiw on this thread)song and it had a heavy reggae beat and Bodrhan riffs driving it. would it count as traditional?