The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160847   Message #3817305
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
30-Oct-16 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Writing a folk standard
Subject: RE: Writing a folk standard
Ok, looking back to what I wrote on 28th, it was just some things that run through my mind when writing a song which I hope will catch others' imagination, and they'll want to hear again.
But I agree, it's a very long way off from becoming any sort of "standard" - only time will tell, and some songs may not have instant appeal but grow on you.
Just thinking of a few examples that get sung up here: you have to be quick off the mark in a session before someone else sings them first:
Follow the Heron (Karine Polwart)
Coming Home (Steven Clark)
Both Sides the Tweed (based on James Hogg poem but revosed by Dick Gaughan)
Norland Wind/The Wild Geese (poem by Violet Jacob, set to music by Jim Reid)
( + Include anything else that was a poem by Violet Jacob/Marion Angus/Mary Brooksbank)