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Thread #166789   Message #4019400
Posted By: GUEST,Nick Dow
15-Nov-19 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
Look forward to seeing you at Ringwood.
No Al you've missed the point again. It wasn't Steeleye that was the problem. It's easy. Kennedy took songs from the Travellers. Right, then as traditional material anybody can sing them. That's great as far as it goes. However if those singers were making a bob of two from recordings the correct thing to do in most peoples opinion was to give the original singers MCPS or PRS (or some other body) protection, or even a bloody mention would have been nice. After my problems with the music business I am quite prepared to believe that Steeleye got bugger all and a suit pocketed the rest, however if you think in terms of the MCPS percentage that could have been paid down the line to the Travellers, if some mush could have been bothered to turn up with the cash, at least that might have made the collectors job a lot easier. That is no answer but it is at least some mitigation. Where does the buck stop? At the man with the microphone. A bit late now.