The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123823 Message #2730717
Posted By: M.Ted
24-Sep-09 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: This should set folk music back 100 year
Subject: RE: This should set folk music back 100 year
The lesson here, such as it is, is that commercial recordings are a product, made for sale by a team of people, and that the performers named on the label are often not the ones who make most of the decisions.
Often you have bands that sound like thisModern Folk Quartet Live teamed with high power producer/promoters to create records that sound like this:Modern Folk Quartet--This Could Be the Night
Given the situation it is probably a mistake to make any determination as to which is more traditional.