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Thread #112220   Message #2372716
Posted By: greg stephens
23-Jun-08 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Define English Trad Music
Subject: RE: Folklore: Define English Trad Music
De gustibus non est disputandum. Os something like that. Obviously the Roman who said that had never visited Mudcat.
You ought to like Eliza Carthy. Oh no I oughtn't.Oh yes you should, yah boo. You ought to like playing in sessions. You ought to hate playing in sessions. You ought to like Irish fiddling. You ought to like English fiddling. You ought to like birls, rolls and trebles. You ought to know what birls rolls and trebles are.You ought to care what birls trolls and trebles are.You ought to know what folk meant in 1954. You ought to know that Lonnie Donegan recorded Rock Island Line in 1954.
Well, I am off to Glastonbury, thank God, where I can listen to all kinds of music with enjoyment. Well, some with enjoyment.And I am fairly confident I will run into absolutely nobody who will insist on buttonholing me and explaining why Seth Lakeman's White Hare is a traditional English folk song. Or why it isn't.