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Thread #123823   Message #2730548
Posted By: Ron Davies
24-Sep-09 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: This should set folk music back 100 year
Subject: RE: This should set folk music back 100 year
It's interesting to try to discern the pedigree of this sort of stuff. I'd say the "Legendaires" are actually trying to mine the "Seekers" vein--with about 1% of their talent--and missing a fourth.. Admittedly I absolutely love the Seekers--and always will. And I don't care what you call them.

As for "All Around My Hat", the contrast between the pristine, yet gutsy, beauty of the a cappella vocals and the godawful obligatory thudding drums and absurd electric guitar, is, shall we say, striking.   It's a shame they had to ruin the song in order to sell it.

As has been noted, those who live in glass houses.....

And it is also interesting that some who regularly take Americans to task for missing irony may possibly have done so themselves re: "set folk music back 100 years". Just a thought.

And a bit of slightly delicious irony.