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Thread #127030   Message #2831723
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
06-Feb-10 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: Is it Ok to sing from a song book?
Subject: RE: Is it Ok to sing from a song book?
"Who the more foolish the Fool?"

Pierre/Pete, what folks need is a *performer*, in my humble, that's about it.
All this talk of crib sheets and banned songs is meaningless without good robust performamnce.

EG: you pull off "Drunken Sailor" in a a way many who strum it never will, because you invest it with a good laugh. It feels like a balsy salty song - it works because you fill it wit character.

Many times I think these discussions on Mudcat are totally meaningless, like studying the suummerz buzz of the bee... ... by sticking it in a glue filled test-tube.