The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46064   Message #682849
Posted By: Big Tim
04-Apr-02 - 11:45 AM
Thread Name: Joan Baez not a fraud exactly
Subject: RE: Joan Baez not a fraud exactly
Well said LH re McColl. Good singer, excellent, not great writer, intolerant, small-minded theorist. If you listen to McColl's ideas now, as I did recently on a Christy Moore St Pat's day Special, he sounds incredibly doctrinaire and dated, still living in the class ridden society of Auchterarder, Falkirk and Salford in his parent's time around the First World War. Pity he didn't live to see the fall of the Soviet Union (and the toryisation of the Labour Party). He lived in a world that never existed and probably never will exist. His approach to "folk music" almost put Luke Kelly, and many more, off folk singing for good, though Christy didn't mention that! He (McColl) slagged Dylan, as, if memory serves, "high school drivel". However "Time will tell who has fell and who's been left behind" - Dylan. As for JB for god's sake leave the woman alone.