THe comment in the article about playing in minor keys to be more soulful is a load of crap, it is just a sign of bad musicianship, in my opinion.

I was shocked when I first heard Shirley Collins's version of "The Blacksmith" on "Anthems in Eden" - it's a sweetly pretty song about the age-old themes of love, lust and disappointment, with the emphasis on the first two. I'd known it from Steeleye Span's version, in which it's a dark, ominous song about the inexorable truths of love, lust and disappointment, with the emphasis on the last one. It's all in the mode.

At the time I was rather young and had very little experience of any of this (getting back to my previous rant), so naturally I preferred the Steeleye Span version.