From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #23 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Friday, February 10 2006 Volume 08 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #22 [John McDonnell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:58:26 -0500 From: John McDonnell Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V8 #22 Hi all, Maybe someone can talk me down on this, but at the Grammys, when Tom Hanks told us what folk music is and what folk singers are he introduced........Bruce Springsteen! Now many, if not all, of you other listers are bigger folk music fans than I, but I found that disingenuously irritating. Don't get me wrong, I have tremendous respect for Springsteen as an artist and songwriter (except for a brief period in the '80s), but he's no folk singer. He is a multi-platinum rock n' roll artist who has done a couple of acoustic albums. It's like saying Green Day is punk--I think they are very good in their own right, and are a reasonable facsimile of a punk consciousness, but they are not punk--they are token punk--even though their music stands by itself regardless of genre. How about putting a real folk singer up there? How about putting a real folk song up there?? Even if troubadors, as our social conscience, are not millionaires (there's no money in guilt), give us something more than a reasonable facsimile of one:Dylan is still alive. How about RS?? John McD. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #23 **********************************