The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134844 Message #3073586
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-Jan-11 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: Classic folk music
Subject: RE: Classic folk music
"And, as I said above, the so-called "source singers" are not."
As far as we are concerned - yes they are; they are OUR souces for the songs that drew us into folk music; the Jeannie Robertsons and Harry Coxs and Phil Tanners provided the foundation on which the present revival was built - they were the door that we came through.
As far as cultural relevance is concerned, anybody who has spent any time with a source singer cannot fail to have noticed the cultural relevance that the songs had for their lives and to their interpretations of the songs they sang - something that has never made its way into the history books, which tend to be an account of lives and deeds of 'the great and the good' rather than the history of the people.
Jim Carroll