Bill D Great stuff Bill.

Kat

Thank you for your contribution, I would suggest that your thinking has evolved rather than degenerated.

Joe

I'm not too sure that I follow your reasoning re 'Rave on', their version is certainly done in traditional style, it certainly is Buddy Holly and it is good. Can it not be all three? By some of the reasoning I have seen here, (i.e.; that if it is done in traditional style, it is traditional) it would be considered traditional.

I'm not claiming that it is traditional, it doesn't matter to me what it's called. I only use it as an example of the tangles we can get ourselves in, with the use of these labels. I think there always was an element of humour in that recording anyway, as long as we don't ever lose that things will be OK.

I take your point about being the music of a community; maybe the community has just changed to a larger one? There are not many song sessions I go to, that would not have someone singing a Buddy Holly song at some time. My father and my brother taught me to play Peggy Sue along with Goodnight Irene, St James Infirmary and Scarborough Fair, does that not make Peggy Sue a traditional song?