The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121862   Message #2665830
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
27-Jun-09 - 07:20 AM
Thread Name: Beginner Floor Singer
Subject: RE: Beginner Floor Singer
get the guitarist and drummer to lay down some dark droning grooves,all WRONG, the instrumentalists should be acompanying the singer,not the singer singing to to a guitarist/ drummers rhythym.

See what I mean? This is the entrenched Folkie mentality which ensures the Revival remains mired in its entrenched, unchanging, non-traditional orthodoxy that runs contrary to the true spirit of 1954 which is all about change.

Otherwise I would say the drummer and guitarist should hit their own improvised groove regardless, a good pedal drone / noise over which the singer then does their thang, be it a Traditional Folk Song or whatever.

Please explain why rock venues/ jazz would appreciate Crow sister,does she sing rock? or Jazz.why witchcraft moots?does Crow sister intend to turn her audience into frogs.

Maybe CS might put her audience in touch with their Inner Frog, which is essential to discovering our Inner Prince, the men anyway. I've never encountered that sort of magic in a Folk Club fo a while. My point is simply this - non-folk audiences tend to be more appreciative of Traditional Folk Song than Folk Audiences; this is something I'm slowly waking up to.