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Thread #158177   Message #3738612
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Sep-15 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Who has done the most for folk music?
Subject: RE: Who has done the most for folk music?
Yeah, the Corries. Wonderful. I could get really controversial here and turn the thread on its head, suggesting who has done folk music a disservice. I can't really listen to English folk music at all, bar a few shining exceptions like Nic Jones and Shirley Collins. Chris Wood and Andy Cutting, marvellous. A lot of Northumbrian music is wonderful. Dick Gaughan, so good, and Scottish fiddle music. I exclude Irish traditional music, which, in an odd way that I can't quite put my finger on, I can't call folk music. I can't think of any English family band or supergroup that has ever done it for me at all. Which is my opinion only, so I'll stop right there!