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Thread #105376 Message #4012012
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Oct-19 - 08:45 AM
Thread Name: Ewan MacColl - any first-hand anecdotes?
Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl - any first-hand anecdotes?
Just read your, as ever, interesting posting W.B.
I agree entirely with your take on local songs but to be fair, the impetus for this came from Alan Lomax who came to Britain in the fifties and found English singers trying to sound like Dust Bowl Dwellers and Prairie cattle perders and Kentucky coal diggers, including Ewan and Bert
He kicked them up their collective butts and all of a sudden everybody was singing Harry Cox and Sam Larner and Cecilia Costello songs
I find myself eternally grateful to all of them for that
Jim