The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99059   Message #1969545
Posted By: Captain Ginger
16-Feb-07 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: The Guardian Vs 'Catters?
Subject: RE: The Guardian Vs 'Catters?
Spot on, Wor Lass. Folk is steadily eliding into 'accoustic' in many ears, and there's a desperate need to recognise the traditional aspect.
Lord knows we have reason enough to be grateful to generations of singer songwriters, so let us not forget the ones who are now forgotten but for the drops they put into the great river of our culture.
To insist on having The White Hare as a traditional track is to stick two sneering fingers up to that heritage. It's the same lazy and self-centred "I don't care, it'll do for me" mentality that puts plastic windows in a Georgian house.
John Leonard may once have been "one of the good guys", but he deserves the epithet "Judas" more than Dylan for his fat-heated arrogant stubbornness on this issue.