Jim Moray....

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:28 AM

good init

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:19 AM

....this looks an interesting and potentially libelous thread !!

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:17 AM

The only entry was he?

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:05 AM

Erm. He won an unaccompanied singing contest at Bromyard last year. Just saying...

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:55 AM

He is not a folksinger ar all, the beauty of folk song is that you can sing or play anywhere, Jim Moray is not much of a singer anyway
and he cant plug his computer in where there is no electric supply or a power cut.
Totally pretentious shite, but if he attracts some people into filk music who then go on to find good folk music, he then perhaps has done a good job.
eric

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: treewind
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:52 AM

Modern saviour of folk music?
- no, no one person is going to do that, but he must be making some contribution to the acceptability of folk music in places where it was unappreciated before.

Nerd with a MIDI who can't really sing that well?
- no, a nerd with a MIDI who actually CAN sing well and can produce arrangements that work musically, even though in a different musical language from what most trad folkies are used to.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST,COMMENTATOR
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:38 AM

At last, "the king`s new suit of clothes" open for discussion.
Some months ago I took Mike Harding to task, via an e-mail, for describing a new Jim Moray CD (his words) as "the most fantastic folk music he`d heard in ages". My opinion was that young Jim`s singing would be appreciated by most folk club audiences as a floor spot and , with youth on his side, he has plenty of time to develop a stronger style and better interpretations of the music, but to use the word "fantastic" was very wide of the mark. I also suggested there are so many more singers and players to be heard who should be also considered, many of which are not to be found on CD`s.
I received no reply!!
People`s/Pub/Folk/Session music is alive and well and to be found thriving all over ; it is not in need of being re-discovered for "the yufe", they will learn to love or discard it in the fullness of time as many of us have done.

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST,KB
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:36 AM

Well I think he is an excellent folksinger, excellent entertainer, and I have thoroughly enjoyed his live performances. Maybe the notes that Guest mentions are pretentious - but not Jim!
(I know we've done it all before on the other thread - but I can't help saying what I think...)

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:10 AM

Personally, Guest, I think it's your friend who is is the pretentious shit.

But as Brian says, check out last summer's thread. No need to trot out all the old stuff again without drastic reworking and new and relevant interpretation. Jim wouldn't.

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:02 AM

I think he's brilliant!

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:59 AM

a friend of mind read out the programme notes just before I was about to compere him at at festival. The notes read (sort of) 'Jim Moray brings an inovative approach to Folk Music bringing in new sounds to take folk music into a modern dimension' to which my mate said I should add 'but personally I think it's pretenious shite'

Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:52 AM

Check out this thread.

Subject: Jim Moray....
From: Morris-ey
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:44 AM

....modern saviour of folk music or nerd with a MIDI who can't really sing that well? Discuss.