Are you stuck in a time warp?

Subject: RE: Are you stuck in a time warp?
From: breezy
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 02:57 PM

a good song, sung badly is a good song murdered IMHO

Thus, is not the delivery more important than the content?

Time for a new thread?

'the singing ref' is a fine example of someone returning to the folk scene after a lifetime away. He returned with what he was familiar with then, today he sings the songs of today after spending 18 months listening to the best writers around and seeing them perform.

his repertoire has a fresh appearance.

He has transported himself in time from 1968 to the present

Tomorrow , Sunday 30th Jan he will be performing at the Spotlight Club in St Albans.



and if he dares sing
'The Gallant frigate Amphitripe' or 'Cant help but Wonder where I'm Sound' then I'll know he's had a relapse.

Maidenhead Folk Club Songwriting contest end of March.
Entries now being recieved.

Subject: RE: Are you stuck in a time warp?
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 06:48 PM

For what its worth, I've just come home from a Planxty concert and all but three songs were from their first three albums, all pre 1975 ... and all two thousand or so in the audience loved it, as best I can tell.

Subject: RE: Are you stuck in a time warp?
From: twoeyes
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 07:36 PM

An extract from the "What is wrong with being a purist? " thread that I think might be of relivance to this one:

Was this traditional?

The first problem for me with the concept of purists is pure what? Living music can't be pure anything because it is always the product of a range of elements.

The second problem is that I get the uneasy feeling that rather than being about other people using "purist" pejoratively the point of this thread is you feel that "purists" are superior to everyone else, who you describe as AGB's.

I have music I like and stuff I dont like. It doesn't make me better than you, just different and it is the fact that we are each different which makes life, and its reflection in music worth living.

and another:

"Folk music is music folk make, old or new doesn't come in to it."

We thrive on diversity, both old and new and yes - hearing the Wild Rover from Breezy again does get people joining in, or squashed cats....  I have to say despite the  possible interpretations of some of the postings I have found both Windward and the St Albans Sunday Nights at the Legion to be diverse and accepting of old, new, experienced and inexperienced, and breezy is always encouraging.