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Thread #113218   Message #2404060
Posted By: Bill D
02-Aug-08 - 09:57 PM
Thread Name: Gene B sings Trad
Subject: RE: Gene B sings Trad
Lovely voice and very enjoyable presentation of "Jones's Ale"....I really like that treatment.

I do wonder where Roger McGuinn learned "Housewife's Lament" though... that plaintive, wandering melody is rather far from any way I've ever heard it done. It's not 'bad'...just different.

And "Rio" and "Thousands or More" are also quite well sung...it's just that they 'feel' like they are being done by a trained opera singer trying to cope with 'folk' music. Some songs need an 'edge' to them to evoke the right mood.

I guess on the whole, you impress me as having almost TOO good a voice and too 'formal' a presentation......but I sure wish *I* had the talent you have a a young man.

Keep at it, and play around with various styles....