"Maybe, but you're a mad old git who knows how to edit and what the return key is for."
Yeah Jack - quite agree
Maybe we should confine these discussions to the educated and computer literate and keep us oiks out
"Do you have a good word to say about anyone or anything concerning folk music in the 21st Century?"
Of course I do, but the way clubs have progressed in Britain, very little of it (certainly as displayed on forums like this) applies to what happens there
I know there is a club has organised a regular ballad forum - I have the highest respect for the work and track record of Peta Webb and Ken Hall and their club, I have lots of correspondence with Annie Neilsen in Scotland - impressive work on the ballads there - the work in Newcastle with students leaves me full of hope......
There are, I believe, true lovers of folk song to salvage something from the rubble created by the Masonic lodges that call themselves folk clubs - if I didn't believe that, I really wouldn't bother.
"Frankly Jim, you are a boring old fart."
Frankly Raggy, you are a disappointment who is now resorting to personal insults - shame on you - and an ageist, to boot.
I got a lifetime of pleasure, thousands of songs, masses of information from old people
One thing that puzzles me
Previous discussions with you below the line have left me with the impression of a progressive, socially and politically conscious person who respects working people and cares for their culture.
When I say I believe folk song proper to be the voice of the people, the expression of their experiences and ideals, an important part of their social history and one of the few examples of a creative cultural heritage of a section of our population who have long been regarded as having no culture - none of this merits even a mention from you and yours - totally unimportant next to putting bums on a rapidly diminishing numbr of seats for a music that cannot be defined
Sorry about the bad grammer Jack - shall I stay behing in class, do 100 lines or what?
Jim Carroll