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Thread #145568   Message #3740623
Posted By: GUEST,Nick Dow
29-Sep-15 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Queen Carolyne Hughes Bio
Subject: RE: Queen Carolyne Hughes Bio
Hallo Guest,
I would use your name with a good heart if I knew it. I spent some time talking to Peter Ingram and Carolines daughter Carrie{I hope that's the right spelling}down in Dorset at Danny Price's trailer. We talked about those recordings and also about money.
I understand entirely how you feel. Those feelings went deep I know. Things have changed now, and if a Gypsy singers voice is recorded, then I am sure that he or she WILL see some money nowdays. Those who recorded your Grandmother were not choring from you deliberatly but trying to make sure the songs were saved forever. Danny Price played those recordings to me and he was glad they were made. If you find it hard to trust us here on mudcat, try and be happy that there is more understanding of your feelings now than there were 40 years ago, and even then there was no disrespect meant. I am married to a Romany Gypsy and my best friend is a Lee, and the the family have given me songs out of freindship. That's the best way isn't it. Would you still sing your grandmothers songs? Why not! you have every right, and we would love to hear them. Talk to us again and tell us your name.
God Bless you
Nick

By the way I know that Gypsy has a capital G for respect.