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Thread #111859   Message #2362652
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Jun-08 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Stylistic quirks in folk music
Subject: RE: Stylistic quirks in folk music
I would be very happy never to hear anybody imitating Hamish Imlach's mannered squeaky wheezes on "The Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice" ever again. For that matter I would be equally happy never to hear Imlach doing it ever again. God knows why he thought it would be funny to listen to the sound of an overweight nicotine-choked alcoholic with a type-A personality sending up the sound of an overweight nicotine-choked alcoholic with a type-A personality gasping his way towards a fatal heart attack.

Traditional singers can get caught up in self-parody too. I've heard Jock Duncan doing Jock Duncan imitations at times.