The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1768 Message #6387
Posted By: Rodney Rawlings
06-Jun-97 - 09:53 PM
Thread Name: Folk Songs NOT to Ditch
Subject: RE: Folk Songs NOT to Ditch
The great thing about good songs is that you can make yourself sick of them by playing or singing them ad nauseam, and then go back to them after a while or hear them by accident and fall under their spell. There is something timeless in the structure of a good melody or melody-plus-lyric that engages the higher faculties despite great familiarity with a song. We just need to give it a rest sometimes, go on to new things, then return.