Subject: RE: John Lennon - Folk Singer
From: Stringsinger - PM
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 02:59 PM

Lenon is an important singer/songwriter but doesn't represent any specific culture.
He crosses over many. I really like him but the only song that is easy to sing is "Give Peace a Chance" if you don't do the first part of the chant. Oh well, maybe "Hey Jude" but it's not a folk song yet. When it gets kicked around for a few decades maybe it can claim folk status but today everything is "folk" in the public mind. Those wonderful old folk songs are being forgotten except for a few officianados who try to keep them alive. And many of the "experts" manage to piss off the public.

Frank
exactly the point I made earlier, his songs have not been folk processed,they are Art songs,some of them are good.
just because his songs are popular that does not mean they are folksongs and it doesnt make him a a folk singer either.