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What the folk????
I have just done my weekly trip to what's new on i-tunes, as I do each Tuesday afternoon. I generally look at "music" followed by a scan thru' folk, rock, jazz and country, less often alternative, reggae, world and vocal. Folk, like in HMV, has today disappeared. I think singer-songwriter has appeared in its place, but may just not have noticed that before.
Given it has always seemed quite a well stocked page, certainly compared to rock, which is always very thin on the ground, surprisingly so, I always think. So what's going on?
(Just for the record, did I get anything? Sure, the other 5 decent tracks from Varshons by the Lemonheads, giving another swipe to the curse of the Word coverdisc, which included the first one)
Yup, just checked singer-songwriter. it's the old folk, proving that old chum Trad Arr is still singing away.
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Sadly,'tis the way of the world
I went to the local folk club on Friday and caught the end of the AGM. Whereas it normally makes a loss over the season of about £100, it has lost £500 this season. This is a club which, when I started going in the eighties, had competition for floor spots (you had to be good) and booked bands who would be appearing well up the bill at Cambridge or Cropredy.
I'm as bad as anyone else. I only go occasionally. I looked round the room and, at 52, I was one of the youngest people there. Yet there are any number of popular young folk performers around at the moment. I just wonder where they play.