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Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Richard Bridge Date: 11 May 09 - 07:06 PM By which I mean duty brought me to trad in the sense that when I started it was "the done thing" to play some folk (1954 definition) to prove that you weren't just a wanker with a guitar who wanted to be Peter and Gordon, or, later, the Beatles. You had roots. You'd gone some way to paying your dues. Gradually I discovered the wealth of darkness in the tradition, not as obvious as modern dark metal, but much deeper, a parallel to the oppression in the blues - and of course the killer stories, the killer melodies, and the way you could build the stonking riffs in. Then I realised that if some of us did not play it it would be lost, and our gene pool would be impoverished. |
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Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: GUEST,Claire M Date: 18 Jun 12 - 09:49 AM Hiya, I liked it as a child, and seemed to like Steeleye Span a lot. I loved fantasy and wrote a lot, mostly poems and short fantasy stories. I developed a lot of silly ideas in my teens, mostly that young people didn't like or listen to it. I wore black nail varnish and blue lipstick, listened to some truly awful stuff I found on my own, and snapped at everyone. I stopped writing. I went to college and got really ill. I'm sure at least some was to do with not listening to what I was used to. Dad was desperate to see Steeleye Span but because I thought they wouldn't be any good I said no. Maddy Prior didn't growl about how she hated everybody. My not going caused problems for Dad because I'm disabled and there was no care set up that night, so he couldn't go. Next time he said "you're bloody well going" and dragged me to their gig (not literally!) When I heard what I now know to be 'Drink Down The Moon' I burst into tears, realising why I'd worshipped Ms. Prior since I was little. (I didn't think it at the time but I will regret not seeing the other Steeleye gig for the rest of my life.) I've been to a few folk gigs since, and I started writing again and haven't stopped. Now I'm told to turn my music UP. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: ian1943 Date: 18 Jun 12 - 10:36 AM At Junior School we sang to William Appleby's 'Singing Together'. At home my parents were singers and at Christmas and New Year we joined with their friends and sang. Then it was blues and traditional jazz and Lonnie Donnegan and the establishment of a folk club in the locality in 1969 but the Damascus Road moment came when I called for my pal Jim one Friday night and he invited me in to listen to tracks from his new record which was the red Waterson's record and I've never looked back, met some wonderful people,drunk countless pints, sung even more songs and, at 68, really look forward to each folk club night. There has been Durham City Folk Festival, Durham Folk Party, Ryder, McCulloch, Ryder and the increasingly venerable Durham City Folk Club. It has been and will continue to be FUN! |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Lonesome EJ Date: 18 Jun 12 - 11:11 AM Melody and History are two of my favorite things. Melody plus History= Traditional Music |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Steve Gardham Date: 18 Jun 12 - 01:43 PM Even though my mother and grandparents sang the stuff and I picked up a lot from school and radio in the 50s none of this hit home until I heard the Watersons and that was it! |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 18 Jun 12 - 04:17 PM I wanted to be cowboy when I grew up. So obviously I had to learn cowboy songs. Then I wanted to be Davy Crockett. After that, I wanted to be the Kingston Trio. Insidious. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Phil Edwards Date: 18 Jun 12 - 04:46 PM I started going to the local folk club (at the tender age of 43) because I wanted to sing in public & I couldn't see where else to do it. I got on well, but I was never that much into the music I heard there; I used to do songs by people like Peter Blegvad and Robyn Hitchcock (unaccompanied), and as time went on I started writing my own. I gradually started getting a taste for traditional songs; we used to get two songs on a singer's night, and I'd typically do one trad and one of my own. Then two things happened. One was hearing John Kelly do a set, and realising just how good traditional songs could sound. I started concentrating on the trad repertoire and catching up on some of the recorded music I'd been missing. Then I started going to a mostly-traditional singaround. What tipped me over the edge was a song I'd never so much as heard of before, which (as far as I could work out) was called Ranzo. Ranzo, sung by every bugger else in the room, and sung loud. With harmonies. (And it was a small room.) I never looked back. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 18 Jun 12 - 05:14 PM I quite like many of the people and think they're very talented. I'm not keen on a lot of the music and songs. Though there are some great songs.They keep me coming back - but its a bit like blues - I can't listen to it indiscriminately for long periods. Its a music that requires you to be interested in the story and the means of telling - and that's quite demanding. You could listen to quite a lot of music and songs withouit doing that. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: MartinRyan Date: 18 Jun 12 - 05:20 PM A dearth of jazz when I moved from Dublin to small town Athlone about 40 years ago. No jazz there - but an excellent folk club run by a guy with a huge repertoire of traditional songs. It was all downhill after that... Regards |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 18 Jun 12 - 05:49 PM nice to see Barry Skinner get a mention - I came across his LP in the attic the other day, Three Martin Graebe songs on it. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 19 Jun 12 - 05:33 PM I thought it was a darts, but I'm dyslaectic. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: GUEST Date: 19 Jun 12 - 11:38 PM Bob Dylan then Harry Smith Folk Anthology. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Sean Belt Date: 20 Jun 12 - 01:42 PM Many years ago (1963 maybe?) I picked up a copy of a Roscoe Holcomb record at the local library. I haven't been the same since. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: Suegorgeous Date: 20 Jun 12 - 07:18 PM Addlestone Folk Club, late 60s. |
Subject: RE: What Brought You to Trad? From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Jun 12 - 09:11 PM Best I recall it was a a Yellow Cab I hailed on 42nd in around 1967 or so............ Spaw |
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