"They remind me of aging respected warriors sat in a gentlemen's club heatedly debating their old regiments, "
Wonder why - maybe to some people traditional music has no more relevance than the Battle of Waterloo - not to me, I'm afraid - it is as important and as entertaining an anything ever created and well worth arguing over
If it is irrelevant, why bother with forums like these
Thousands of youngsters in Ireland are coming to traditional music for the first time and some of them are playing it as well as it has ever been played - maybe we should tell them they are wasting their time and should expend their talents on all this new stuff!
Some of us here seem to be still hooked on personal taste - ah well!!
For my money, Sam Larner put more life and understanding into a song than did any other 80 year old I ever heard and both of them were into their 80s when recorded.
That's my preference for this thread
JIm Carroll