The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104168   Message #2133997
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
26-Aug-07 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: Songbooks: Review: The Folk Handbook
Subject: RE: Review: The Folk Handbook
Well actually I think most people learned Jack Orion from Martin Carthy, Blackwaterside from Anne Briggs and Nottamun Town from Shirley Collins. OK, I'll give you Rosemary Lane but that was much later, in the midst of the Pentangle era.

In the beginning, people were fascinated by Bert Jansch because of his unique, uncopyable playing style and his songwriting first and foremost. Not for his interpretation of trad songs.

My reference to Mick Jagger was that I thought he's be a bit puzzled, not insulted, to be asked to take part in The Imagined Village. Imagined Somewhere in the Deep South, perhaps, but not really a candidate for Banks of the Sweet Primroses. (Though there is Dandelion, I suppose . . .