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Thread #118336   Message #2564723
Posted By: GUEST,Phil Beer
12-Feb-09 - 05:54 AM
Thread Name: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
Subject: RE: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
Many of us have, in the past, suggested that a lifetime award for Davey would be entirely appropriate. Its a real shame they never got to it. Almost every solo show I do contains a song learnt from 'Folk Blues and Beyond'. Almost every night, someone sidles up to express the fact that they got into this music down the same avenue. Both Ralph and Bert will say more or less the same thing. One of the major problems of having a big 'Hit' song like 'Streets' is that it defines an artiste in time for most people. If you actually examine the subsequent and consistent output of Ralphs, you will find maybe as many as 20 vastly superior songs and 100 pretty damn good ones. Thats the problem with 'Hits'.