The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58961   Message #936634
Posted By: greg stephens
19-Apr-03 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: Are all folkies over fifty?
Subject: RE: Are all folkies over fifty?
Of course I would have gone out to meet Gershwin or Cole Porter or whatever, I'd have been thrilled. I said I wouldnt have interested, as a teenager, going to watch fifty-year olds practising song-writing. Practising as in practising scales or golf-swings, not as in a doctor practising. I might of course have missed something: i'm just saying I know I would not, as a teenager, have been interested in what tends to go in in folk clubs nowadays. I was interested in folk clubs then, and I was interested in old codgers who knew folksongs in pubs.