"I'd love to hear your 'Young Hunting' if you'd feel like sharing it "
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I don't think speed or ornamentation is really is off-topic; I believe, like accent, it relates to how the singer makes the song his or her own
I have always had problems in understanding how a singer can 'believe' their song using a phony accent
One of our Traveller singers once tole us - "It's always easier to get someone to like your song if you like it yourself"
he old singers we knew didn't 'perform' their songs, they related them as, as you would a story; the question of 'belief' or suspension of belief was a major factor in their singing
When listening to many of the older recordings it's hard not to notice the differences in approach - the speed mainly, the natural phrasing, the flow.
Not always the case, of course; I know of at least one singer with a nasty dose of 'colletoritis' who was influenced by the collector to adopting a certain approach to their singing that changed her approach.
Jim