The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35879 Message #493406
Posted By: RangerSteve
27-Jun-01 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: Songs that everyone likes but you
Subject: RE: BS: Songs that everyone likes but you
I'm glad someone mentioned The Unicorn in the beginning of this thread. How about Tie Me Kangaroo Down? For a couple of years at Boy Scout camp that one was sung to death. The Edmond Fitzgerald wouldn't be a bad song if there was a bridge in the melody, but there isn't, and it just goes on and on and on and on for all 100 (it seems) verses. Will the Circle be Unbroken is morbid. All blue grass songs about dead mothers are morbid. All old-time country songs about dying children, (Little Joe, Little Bessie, etc) where the kids get philosophical about death should be illegal. Dueling Banjos and Foggy Mt. Breakdown are ok tunes, but no great. Just because they were featured in movies doesn't mean every banjo player loves them. Mostly, we hate them, so stop asking me (or any other banjo player) to play them.