The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42093   Message #610216
Posted By: Sorcha
15-Dec-01 - 12:42 AM
Thread Name: Old-time music in a rut?
Subject: RE: BS: Old-time music in a rut?
Bill, Jimmy Giles has just started performing again in public (2 years ago) because of the "crayture" and Mark O'Connor can't please an audience to save himself. By his own admission, he "spent too many years as a side man".....(heard that 2 yrs ago from his own mouth).

Marks' is one of the very few concerts I have ever walked out on. Mark at that time couldn't find a melody to save himself, let alone a lead.

Sad for both of them. Neither are the "boy wonder" that they once were, but Jimmy seems to be bouncing back better as an entertainer than Mark. Mark (in MHO) just seems to want to promote Mark.....Mark is trying to do everything and doing none of it very well, while Jimmy is just getting back to the basics of entertaining. Just my opinion of course.........(and I think I know where that Barn was............)