"You're stuck in a time warp set by others and you just cannot see beyond it. Not that I believe you had ever tried"
You are still insulting Raggy and you still fail totally to come up with an argument
"Which is right?"
Not you Tim
There is no "right" - you sing what you want the way you want, but you are borrowing songs from a tradition - you are not part of it.
WE are now passive observers of our culture - by and large we have to purchase it
I usually judge how these songs work by either comparing them to the source or examining the text to see if the rendition lives up to the function of the song
There's a debate going on on another thread about a song we recorded from a Travelling woman
WHAT WILL WE DO?
Mary was a chronic asthmatic, but she made her songs work for me every time, because she re-lived them every time she sang them
Sam Larner did this as well, so did Walter
That's what I miss from many singers today
Jim Carroll