That was for Jim, not Al.

Crossed posts...

Al, I hear that all the time. Some damned fine musicians and singers go to open mic nights, acoustic nights, even roots and acoustic nights around here because they feel the term "folk club" has some weird masonic aura about it and many are of the "been once, never again" variety. Organisers go out of their way not to call them folk clubs in order to attract people in!

So so sad. What's worse, those guilty of stifling the folk process are represented on here by people thinking they are the ones who know what the fuck folk actually is...

A while ago, I sang a traditional song that I have worked to my own adaptation. At the bar afterwards, a pompous git told me I sang it wrong. "I can't have done." I said. "I have been singing like that ever since I wrote that particular arrangement."

If I hadn't been haunting folk clubs for 35 years, I too might have said "fuck this for a game of soldiers."

Reminds me of Harry Chapin's "Flowers are red."

Flowers are red
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.

But there's so many colours in the rainbow!
So many colours in the morning sun!
So many colours in the flowers,
And I see every one.

Flowers are red
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.