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Thread #140630   Message #3232529
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
02-Oct-11 - 06:59 AM
Thread Name: folk music being used to advertise consumer goods
Subject: RE: folk music being used to advertise consumer goods
Orange using Vashti Bunyan's Diamond Day not only relaunched her career but revived an entire lost idiom of obscure UK psych-folk for a new generation. What goes around comes around, if only by dint of a more genuine Folk Process than that gibbered over by folk enthusiasts. In other words, it's the same thing, just a different medium, and I know several people who's lives were changed and enriched as a consequence. For example I might mention Charles Webb, who had local girls Camelia turn in a near definitive rendering of Diamond Day at his funeral. Charles being a life-long Folky, I assumed that it had be a cherished favourite since the the dark daze of Witchseason, but he brother told me he'd fallen in love with the song via the Orange add. Does that cheapen it? I think not!