Jim Carroll

my complaint has been (a) going to clubs and hearing 'Danny Boy' et al, sung badly, and (b) not hearing ballads (or folk songs, as I understand them) sung at all.
Over the last fifteen years I don't think I have heard half a dozen ballads sung in all, and most of them were by singers who made a half-decent job of them.
Maybe bad singers just avoid ballads in places I have been to.

I know this is a waste of time but...

In going on forty years, I have heard 'Danny Boy' in a folk club once as far as I recall, sung fairly indifferently but not actually badly.

I have heard more than half a dozen ballads sung well in the last couple of weeks.

How do you do it, Jim? What are these places you go to?

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