Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent blokes Baccy - not my experience at all
"encountered in a successful folkclub."
So if a club booked a Pavarotti soundalike and filled it each week for that sort of music it would be "folk"
Do I have that right?
Substitute Pavvi for Led Zeppelin, or frank Sinatra.... or whoever you like.
I asked RTim if his Morris side did ballet or hip-hop - reply came there no, so I took that to be a n unsounding "no"
"If you insist on a strict academic definition of a genre"
I don't and never have - I say the existing one remains until another comes along
Whatever happens in a folk club doesn't hack it
There's a nice quote from Shirley Collins in yesterday's Irish Times' review of her new documentary 'The Ballad of Shirley Collins'
"Folk song belongs the despised and neglected people of the hard-working classes
They deserve to be known"
My grandparents and my mum came from the labouring classes"
Sorry folks, "you can't take that away from me" with your T-Rexs and your Bob Geldofs - as the song should have said
Nice to know I'm not alone
Jim Carroll