The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154510   Message #3627096
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-May-14 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Traditional Singers Talking
Subject: RE: Folklore: Traditional Singers Talking
"Have you any interviews with Sam Larner? I'd like to hear more about his approach."
We don't have any transcribed ones - we never met Sam (Pat saw him at The Singers Club before I met her), but we do have some recorded interviews MacColl and Parker did with him.
Will be happy to pass them on when we've digitised them.
The best example of Sam talking is to be found on 'Now is the Time For Fishing' - in my opinion, the best album of a traditional singer ever made.
We wanted to do a similar double CD of Walter - singing and talk - but sadly, Topic chickened out and issued A World Without Horses (and speech, it would appear!) instead.
Sam appears with Harry Cox in a film (they were filmed separately, they never met), 'The Singer and the Song' - don't know if it's still available.
Jim Carroll