hi

A thought just struck me as we were debating this thread.

Is this reading from a book/sheets thing in folk clubs a new new phenomena??

Due to illness I have not been around folk clubs for some time. Before that I was involved with it for some/many years in one way or another.

I can hardly remember any singer at what-ever kind of session resorting to reading as they sang.

Could it be that in our time we either couldn't read or were too poor to be able to afford to buy books???

Or is this some form of recent explotation and pressure selling to we gullible folk performers??

just a thought.

Regards

Mike