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Thread #155357   Message #3667976
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
10-Oct-14 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
didn't need a definition when i started
don't need one now

perhaps if the music you say you enjoy had more conspicuous virtues, was more listenable and more memorable.
then maybe you wouldn't need a definition to justify it.

can you think of any other reason the folk have lost all relish for your school of folk music?
god knows if that's all folk music DID consist of - there would have been no folk revival. no network of folk clubs for Ewan and Peggy to tour.

you claim all the time that we dis respect your music. booking the artists, supporting them, offering them our homes to stop in when they were on the road. that's not disrespecting them. is it compulsory to lie and say they are the alpha and omega of folk music.

you claim that we abuse you. i have offered you no insults. but you have called me a clown, dishonest, a liar......no wonder people lose patience with you.