The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141742 Message #3265063
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
28-Nov-11 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: Occupy Folk Music! (USA)
Subject: RE: Occupy Folk Music! (USA)
look .......
Mozart, Bix beiderbeck, Django Rheinhardt,
all of 'em got short shrift from the contemporary music scene. le plus ca change....
I bet they played Soldiers Joy in the wrong key for it to be 'in the tradition'.
Do you never suspect 'the tradition' of being a huge conglomerate of complete bumholes?
Surely, in quiet moments, the thought has crossed the mind of us all.
I applaud your bravery steve Suffet, but I suspect you are completely shafted from first base. For every folk legend, theres about about ten thousand sycophants queuing up to crawl up his or her bum.