The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156030   Message #3675968
Posted By: GUEST,Rahere
09-Nov-14 - 01:14 PM
Thread Name: Lectures on folk: live or records?
Subject: RE: Lectures on folk: live or records?
It's because it's the people's music, not Martin's or Sam's or Jon's (much though...) - and that means it's yours to pass on to them. The old lags who dated from the turn of the last century who passed it on to the older members of this community who passed it on to you weren't any better than the worst of you, some of them were truly appalling - by modern standards. But they were them, and you is you, and it doesn't matter as long as you pass the ball along, if only because the audience is mostly worse than any of us - at the moment.
So however much you like that particular turn, or this line, the important thing is what you do with it. you wouldn't be a musician if you didn't have your own ideas about what to do with a tune, so JFDI.