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Thread #105393 Message #2169772
Posted By: Richard Bridge
12-Oct-07 - 02:58 PM
Thread Name: Guardian calls Ani DiFranco folk singer
Subject: RE: Guardian calls Ani DiFranco folk singer
Try getting the Guardian to publish a long letter. Then you will understand why I wrote a short one.
Ignorance does not become knowlege by being commonplace.
An newspaper columnist ought to try to know something of his topic. Would you send Jordan to interview a nuclear physicist?
If folksingers (or "source" singers) are extinct or nearly so, that does not make others into folk singers.
A starling is not a Dodo.