The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152589   Message #3571451
Posted By: Phil Edwards
30-Oct-13 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Criticism at singarounds
Subject: RE: Criticism at singarounds
I only ever do traditional songs these days. Apart from a few Tawneys and a couple by MacColl, of course, and some settings of Robert Burns. And some of Bellamy's Kiplings (if they were good enough for Bellamy), and one Martin Simpson setting of Kipling of which I'm rather fond - and some of Bellamy's own, of course. Sydney Carter wrote some good ones, as did Jake Thackray, and when I'm feeling brave I sometimes do a Lal Waterson. I don't do Dylan as a rule, but you can't really not do any Dylan. Oh, and there's a Noel Coward song I sometimes do for a lark. I've written some of my own, too, but they don't get many outings these days - because these days I only ever do traditional songs.