Comments on: Folked up

By: Lori Witzel

Lori Witzel — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:39:09 +0000

The Bad Livers were an awesome group — and last I heard Mark Rubin’s still in Austin, doing great creative musical things (since I don’t get out for music much, am out of that loop.)

And Flogging Molly…I lurve Flogging Molly!!! Forgot all about ‘em until your post, and now have to hunt some tunes up to get me roaring into the workplace…

:-)

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:58:47 +0000

Dude, they cover Motorhead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFh6IU4ukjo

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:55:36 +0000

Huh. I must admit, I wouldn’t mind hearing bluegrass covers of AC/DC.

Country Fried Scrapple – now there’s something I haven’t thought about in fifteen years! (The band, not the product. We had scrapple just last week.)

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:58:33 +0000

http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/genesis.html

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:53:38 +0000

What, no Country Fried Scrapple? :-)

There is a group called Hayseed Dixie. I just lifted this quote, “Hayseed Dixie World Service – rockgrass for world domination.” Google them.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:37:12 +0000

that slippery slope to AC/DC damnation

On the highway to hell, as it were.

By: Fred Garber

Fred Garber — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:33:51 +0000

I remember when Bob Dylan went electric in the early 60′s. What a scandal! The anti-electric purists don’t mind listening to electric powered radio. A band that from the 60′s that combined acoustic and electric that I still like is Pentangle. Also, once you amplify(electrically) your acoustic instrument you have started down that slippery slope to AC/DC damnation!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:13:13 +0000

handdrummer – Thanks for those recommendations. I’m familiar with Leon Redbone and the Battlefield Band, but not the other three.

Larry – I hoped it would be obvious I wasn’t talking about jam sessions and front porch music. Even most rockers enjoy an acoustic jam. And it makes sense that there’d be a size limit beyond which any jam wouldn’t work. I was talking about the attitude of the fans. On the public radio station here, there are many hours of folk music, programmed by local volunteers, and there seems to be an ironclad rule not to play anything that isn’t acoustic. This becomes especially arbitrary and absurd when playing music from other parts of the world.

B.A. – Up the Arsh! (That’s how we pronounce “Irish” in Tyrone, PA.)

By: Beer Activist

Beer Activist — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:54:32 +0000

Folk all y’all folkers.

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:29:39 +0000

For bands commercially recording their music I agree that a ban on electronic instruments doesn’t make much sense, but when playing in sessions for pleasure there is a good rationale. Amplification is a slippery slope; once one person amplifies, others start in and before you know it the traditional feel of the session goes out the window and you have a rock-and-roll band.

When an informal regular session becomes popular and gets big enough so that quieter instruments (such as mandolins and guitars) can’t be heard…. this is a signal and a hint, and people start congregating elsewhere in smaller groups. Then the cycle begins again…