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Thread #54320   Message #840824
Posted By: wysiwyg
04-Dec-02 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Folk music (however you define it) on TV
Subject: RE: Folk music (however you define it) on TV
All I know is, I find good music on TV all the time, whatever it may be called.

And I would LOVE to have a copy of that Canadian cartoon about the Log Driver, which tune (Log Driver's Waltz) caught me so good the first time it flew past me that I found I accurately remembered it, note for note, till I saw it again a year later.... because I whistled it for hours after hearing it so I would never forget it. What a thrill to find the words here, too!

Little is much when good music is in it. If I never heard another good piece, I could spend years learning what I have heard and seen just on TV.

I still have the old worn audiotape of a Folkstage performance WTTW-Chicago and a local radio station simulcast in the.... many years ago. (I was there in the audience for the taping, too. Gibson, Paxton, Josh White Jr., and Odetta.) And the songs and philosophies and sound still come out of my music now.

Anyone remember "Sing for the Song, Boys"?

Also have a great WTTW-Chi meatball-audio from a program of trad music done on fiddle and hammer dulcimer, by a local duo. Just happened to catch it as I was surfing.

~S~