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Thread #131641   Message #3011452
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
20-Oct-10 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: The Concept of FREED Folkmusic
Subject: RE: The Concept of FREED Folkmusic
BEUK!

Here's my post from earlier:

Will - For the record, Conrad filched the title Beuk o' Newcassel Sangs from Joseph Crawhall's publication of 1888 (as published by Mawson, Swan and Morgan - who would later go on to form Morton Sound who produced your Jack Armstriong LP) along with many of Crawhall's singular woodcuts, which Conrad reproduces with little respect for their essence. Either way the title is ludicrous, as was Crawhall's intention as a well-heeled Antiquarian Novocastrian. To include Tommy Armstrong's songs in any collection of Newcassel Sangs is way off the mark anyway...