" I have posted links to me performing in this thread and you confirm that it is folk music"
Not if it's buried in evenings full of songs that have no identity to what you have sung
The clubs I was involved with were grounded in folk styles - the majority of songs were traditional, the rest were overwhelmingly similar in style and objective
I go to a Classical concert to hear classical and classically based music - the same with Jazz, C and W, hip-hop, - any genre you care to name
I ask again - why should folk be any different ?
I quite enjoyed the frothiness of The Kinks back in the day, (I quite liked Buddy Holly and Rickie nelson and some of the other outpourings of the Music Industry) but "when I became a man I put aside foolish things" as they say
SFA to do with the slices of cultural history ot human drama that the fokk songs are
I think the fact that The KInks have been raised as likely candidates for today's folk scene makes my point far better than i can
I can just see the thousands of today's youth filling the folkk lubs to listen to their songs - are you people puling my chain !!!
Jim Carrollo