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Thread #140857 Message #3251671
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
06-Nov-11 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: What is Folk Music? This is...
Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
I said 'some', not 'all'. Please quote me correctly.
And please, don't come over all dictatorial with me.
Thank you.
I actually love 'some' traditional music..but I couldn't give a hoot for all that 1976 definition 'stuff'
And I'm still recovering from being reminded of the Famous Flowers of Serving Wenches! Yikes that song is too dreary even to die too!! I mean WHO would want to listen to 36 verses of that???? Holey Moley!
I like the New Tradition stuff better. The songs being written today, by living, breathing songwriters. Sometimes they write songs of long ago. Sometimes they write songs of the Human Condition of today...Sometimes, like Robert, at the start of this thread, they sing songs their Granny's used to sing to them, when they were little...