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Thread #153636   Message #3599598
Posted By: Richard Bridge
08-Feb-14 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: Suggestions for converting folkies?
Subject: RE: Suggestions for converting folkies?
No, not the Elvis popularised "the Ghetto". This one (listen, it's great) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DpShHHvJyo

No, not folkies who are converting to something else, people who are converting to be folkies.

No, I don't really do Fela Kuti. My son Dominic does.

Yes, I have some Herauld and Turner recordings. I was looking at a much earlier recording of one they do (Maid of Islington) by someone unexpected (was it Shirley Collins?) but thought it over-risque to suggest. Although maybe "Odd Sock" would run. The colour of the sock could be changed each verse for comic effect.


"Music of Western European heritage"? You cannot be serious, can you?   How about "non-Mobo"? It would verbally include Hispanic, which might be a mistake. That would leave "non-MoBo, non-MoLo". How about "Anglo-American-Celtic"?

Anyway, I'm not getting many good suggestions so I reckon I'll just have to go back to rummaging at Youtube and in my record collection. Spotify has locked me out ever since I refused it access to my facebook login!   

See you around. Maybe.