Folk music and song has to be about the muisc and song Ake
- the music hasn't lost touch with the people the people who perform it may have though
The first person a performer has to please and satisfy his him/herself
Until you are able to do that you will convince nobody
All the (old) singers we asked told us they say pictures of their songs as they sang them
Walter Pardon described at length how he could look at an audience without seeing them
Once you try to please an audience you become a performer of songs rather than an interpreter of them - they become external projections rather than inner experiences
I'm pretty convinced that this applies to all art
Jim Carroll