Hey all! I'm definitely a Cohen fan. I used to work in a music store
and my co-workers and I would play him in the store and call him Uncle
Lenny. He's a storyteller for our generation for sure.

Hi Aaron

I saw him for the first time this year in London. Absolute brilliance.


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Hey all! I'm definitely a Cohen fan. I used to work in a music store
and my co-workers and I would play him in the store and call him Uncle
Lenny. He's a storyteller for our generation for sure.

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p.s. is that a reference to Richard Thompson?

if it isn't, then check out that song. It's one of his best

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Hi

yes it is a reference to Richard Thompson,. Another great songwriter

I've been trying to find the really good cover of that song by someone whose
name I can't remember

"Beeswing"
p.s. is that a reference to Richard Thompson?
if it isn't, then check out that song. It's one of his best
yes it is a reference to Richard Thompson

Or you might check out the Stewarts of Blair "Queen Among the
Heather", which is the same story told in better words with a
VASTLY better tune.  (And I've never heard any performance of
it that wasn't incomparably more passionate than any performance
of anything by Richard Thompson).

There is a reason why so many people think all folk music is
mediocre crap, and the adulation accorded to bozos like Thompson
is a large part of it.

Gill Smith wrote:


I've been trying to find the really good cover of that song by someone
whose name I can't remember


The CD is called 'His Master's Voice'. His name is....

It's in the shed. Hang on.

JF
Dave Burland?

It's in the shed. Hang on.

Dave Burland?

"Beeswing"
p.s. is that a reference to Richard Thompson?
if it isn't, then check out that song. It's one of his best
yes it is a reference to Richard Thompson

"Beeswing"
p.s. is that a reference to Richard Thompson?
if it isn't, then check out that song. It's one of his best
yes it is a reference to Richard Thompson

Or you might check out the Stewarts of Blair "Queen Among the
Heather", which is the same story told in better words with a
VASTLY better tune. (And I've never heard any performance of
it that wasn't incomparably more passionate than any performance
of anything by Richard Thompson).

There is a reason why so many people think all folk music is
mediocre crap, and the adulation accorded to bozos like Thompson
is a large part of it.

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p.s. is that a reference to Richard Thompson?

if it isn't, then check out that song. It's one of his best

I'd ask who did the good version of that (I don't particularly care for

Would it not be fairer to say that the general public's view of what
constitutes "folk" and its proponents is conditioned by the mass media's
presentation of such?

Ask anyone who has been interviewed by a newspaper or radio station, how
accurately they have been represented by the final published material, to
get an idea of whether that is a good thing or not!

As far as the media are concerned, anybody that plays solo acoustic guitar
is instantly "folk", because categorising them in terms of what they play
is too taxing for their poor, overworked little brains.

To my mind, RT ceased to be a "folk" performer a long time back, (by my
own definition anyway) but that doesn't make him a bad person, and I'd
still cross the road for a live gig - in the way I wouldn't for, say,
James Blunt.

Actually I might throw myself into the road to avoid James
Blunt............