Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3 *PB 5- Jumper K 7*
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Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3 *PB 5- Jumper K 7*
A
June Tabor - Shipbuilding
B
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
June Tabor - Shipbuilding
B
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
Two great tracks which are both coincidentally covered by Robert Wyatt and appear on this:
Two very poignant tracks
Billie undoubtedly had a great voice and sings this classic with great style and dignity.
But June is more to my taste in terms of enjoyment
So, A has it
A has it
-+A+-
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Two very poignant tracks
Billie undoubtedly had a great voice and sings this classic with great style and dignity.
But June is more to my taste in terms of enjoyment
So, A has it
A has it
-+A+-
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
Neither qualify as folk songs, really, and this is the second Tabor track I find a bit overwrought. Wyatt definitely does the definitive version of this one.
B is a bit obvious, but not in a folkie way, so I'm torn. But, better song, better performance - yeah. So I guess that decides it.
B is a bit obvious, but not in a folkie way, so I'm torn. But, better song, better performance - yeah. So I guess that decides it.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
A
An exceptional cover version of an exceptional song.
Despite its may qualities Strange Fruit does not belong in the Folk Cup.
An exceptional cover version of an exceptional song.
Despite its may qualities Strange Fruit does not belong in the Folk Cup.
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A is a nice version of a classic song. B is a classic, but a classic of the blues/jazz genre. I'm all for broad church but this is a stretch.
Anyway A
Anyway A
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
What is Blues if not folk music?
B.
B.
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Jumper K wrote:What is Blues if not folk music?
There's truth in that but if I was to slip a folk song into a Jazz, Blues and Soul cup I'd be slaughtered
I guess for me there is a distinction between folk music as "music of the common folk" and folk music as a musical genre (fiddles, flutes and hey nonny nonny ) . Anyway it's open to individual interpretation how folk music is defined and vote accordingly.
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trans-chigley express wrote:Jumper K wrote:What is Blues if not folk music?
There's truth in that but if I was to slip a folk song into a Jazz, Blues and Soul cup I'd be slaughtered
Undoubtedly. Its a problem with those broad sweeping genres though. I'm with Nigel in wanting to irk the purists.
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Jumper K wrote:trans-chigley express wrote:Jumper K wrote:What is Blues if not folk music?
There's truth in that but if I was to slip a folk song into a Jazz, Blues and Soul cup I'd be slaughtered
Undoubtedly. Its a problem with those broad sweeping genres though. I'm with Nigel in wanting to irk the purists.
It's probably one of Fange's picks, he's always trying to shoehorn jazz into every genre of cup
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
Guilty as charged, guvnor. The shoehorn part anyway.
Here, i just like B more in the end.
B
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I wish I'd picked some black metal, and pointed vaguely at folk influence now. I'm by no means a folk purist, or even give a toss about genres, but y'know, I was hoping to hear some folk tracks in this cup.
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Black Death Folk - a mix of metal and folk, or songs about the plague?
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fange wrote:Black Death Folk - a mix of metal and folk, or songs about the plague?
An African-American death-folk band, obviously!
Anyway, this kind of thing should be in your necro-inverted wheelhouse, fange:
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Pagan Viking folk metal is where it’s at.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:fange wrote:Black Death Folk - a mix of metal and folk, or songs about the plague?
An African-American death-folk band, obviously!
Anyway, this kind of thing should be in your necro-inverted wheelhouse, fange:
I like it! If i was an ad man, i'd use it for a Soothers cough drops ad.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
What were the odds of having these two Robert Wyatt-related and both hardly folky songs pitted against each other?
June Tabor's delivery here is much better than her Lili Marlene...
... and while this is Billie's signature tune, I must admit I never really warmed to her version.
Still, it's gotte be B for sheer cultural importance.
June Tabor's delivery here is much better than her Lili Marlene...
... and while this is Billie's signature tune, I must admit I never really warmed to her version.
Still, it's gotte be B for sheer cultural importance.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 3
B has a classic song but I'm more in tune with the chilled alto of June
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A
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A: Interesting. It may take me a few listenings to warm to it.
B: I never really cared for it, but..
B
B: I never really cared for it, but..
B
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