The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102379   Message #2075639
Posted By: greg stephens
13-Jun-07 - 08:06 AM
Thread Name: The National Trust. Folk CD
Subject: RE: The National Trust. Folk CD
Mr Fox: yes I pasionately do care. I have a lifelong love for English folk music, an obsessive devotion. Sure I care. So I want other people to enjoy it. I also passionately love jazz, I think "Savoy Blues" by the Louis Armstrong Hot Five is possibly the best track in the world ever. But nothing, absolutely nothing, would induce me to put it on a compilation of English contemporary folk music. Or of English traditional folk music. Or of Viennese kletzmer bands. It's a classic jazz recording from New Orleans musicians recorded in the USA. Similarly with a Scottish singer singing an old American protest song: "English contemporary music", it isn't.