The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167340   Message #4038452
Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Mar-20 - 06:05 AM
Thread Name: Mediation and its definition in folk music
Subject: RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music
"I and thousands of others certainly don't."
You have my undying admiration
The songs are deliberately made non-narrative, the words - when you can hear them, are tailored to fir the instrumentation which i at best, distracting, but usually so loud that it drowns out everything else
It's like trying to tell a story to the accompaniment of an angle-grinder
I'm not saying they can't be enjoyed by those who enjoy such things - but not as stories and certainly not as folk songs
I think we might have been here before Joe - Sheepcrook and Black Dog maybe ??
Jim