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Thread #121279 Message #2647150
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
03-Jun-09 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
Hmmmm... I still maintain anything sung by an inveterate folkie like Richard Bridge is Folk regardless of musical type (or even personal hype) and certainly nothing I saw in the YouTube video persuaded me otherwise. This is what Folk Music has become; in every Designated Folk Context there'll be someone like Richard, self-consciously doing their bit for eclecticism wholly innocent of the fact that whatever old bollocks they're singing fits the 1954 Definition like a glove. I feel sure an ethnomusicological study of the phenomenon that is Richard Bridge would only serve to confirm this.
So maybe it's time to replace the horse definition with The Bridge Definition: if Richard sings it, it is folk.