The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126218   Message #2803925
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
05-Jan-10 - 09:32 AM
Thread Name: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Subject: RE: Free Rare Old Folk Album Downloads
Hardly petty, Ruth - I thought it a pretty fair assessment myself for the purposes of establishing the simple fact that anyone given to listening to stuff like that would never stoop so low as to pinch it. You'd have to be a better person to appreciate such music, a superior sort of person indeed, one who still believes in C#'s vision of moral betterment through Folk Song. I think, perhaps, in the music of Jim Causeley (at least the 90-seconds of it I could bear to listen to) C#'s vision might, at last, have been realised. The music has been heartily plundered & torn from its once vibrant source; stacked and dried it can now be reappraised by a younger generation carefully selected for their bland middle-class muso slickness - everything, in fact, that The Tradition never was. Sad really - certainly a lot sadder than a few free random downloads...