The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3664098
Posted By: Musket
27-Sep-14 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
If someone running a pub would like to host a club, run by Jim and with Keith Price sat listening earnestly over his shandy, it leaves the way clear for the rest of us to enjoy folk music.

Jim, where did I give the impression I am an extreme anything? The "extreme" idiots are the ones who turn up at a place of entertainment and try to tell you what is wrong with your music. Now, if I couldn't sing, couldn't play and people were wishing I'd shut up, that's one thing, but the ones who try telling you what is and isn't folk are as fucking annoying here as they are in a pub full of people out for a good night out.

What inspires people to stand or sit there complaining that folk isn't what they want it to be after all? You'd think they'd get a life.

It's thanks to such buffoons that Folk clubs are rebranding themselves as acoustic nights or acoustic roots etc . And that's a shame because the vast majority, nay, 95% of us enjoy folk in its widest sense.