The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134331   Message #3055196
Posted By: Edthefolkie
16-Dec-10 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: Remembering Long Songs for Performance
Subject: RE: Remembering Long Songs for Performance
I was just praising Andy Irvine on another thread and then looked at this one. I'm still marvelling at how he flew from Japan to Dublin, was plonked in front of a camera in a pub and did an absolutely storming version of "Tom Joad" - quite a long song. I suppose in his case it was repetition AND past obsession with Woody.

As to verse order, I remember Simon Nicol regularly cocking up the verses of "John Barleycorn", to the point where he was applauded by the cognoscenti.