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Thread #164711 Message #3946537
Posted By: Jim Carroll
27-Aug-18 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: UK Folk Revival 2018
Subject: RE: UK Folk Revival 2018
"Martin Carthy is one of the unavoidable stopping off points for every English guitarist-singer."
Doesn't make him a good accompanist Al -
I like Martin but that doesn't mean I like what he does
My long dead mate (30 years now) threw his home open once a week to young singers like me and ran classes where he devised ways of helping inexperienced newcomers improve their singing
He did more work on singing techniques for folk songs than any other single individual on the scene
He wrote around 300 songs and was recognised as the leading singer of his day for many decades
If you mention his name on this forum you will be inundated with open hate mail which almost immediately closes down thread after thread - making it virtually impossible to discuss all the ideas and techniques that he left behind in recorded form
I have 250 tapes of his workshops that I have no idea what I am going to do with and nearly as many interviews, lectures and radio programmes all containing examples of has pioneering work
And you complain about my crticisnf somebody's style of accomaniment in passing
Give us a ***** break Al!
Jim