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Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - Byker Hill
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James McMurtry-We Can't Make It Here Anymore
Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7 *Hatz 4- Hightea 10*
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Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7 *Hatz 4- Hightea 10*
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
Carthy & Swarb - awesome.
I love Martin's voice.
This track is a corker!
James McMurtry was interesting - I am not familiar
Broad church folk methinks - very enjoyable soem nice fuzzy electric guitar - the downside was it's a little too long and I lost interest after about 6 minutes
So, A has it
A has it
-+A+-
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I love Martin's voice.
This track is a corker!
James McMurtry was interesting - I am not familiar
Broad church folk methinks - very enjoyable soem nice fuzzy electric guitar - the downside was it's a little too long and I lost interest after about 6 minutes
So, A has it
A has it
-+A+-
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
B
I giving the benefit of the doubt to B.
I giving the benefit of the doubt to B.
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Great track, and can't possibly vote against Swarb
Great track, and can't possibly vote against Swarb
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
Lots of praise for Swarb here, but how about Carthy's guitar playing? Jansch, Renbourne, Graham, Frank...all great. They, to some degree, have some similarities. Nobody plays quite like Carthy. And the lite-psych pushers should take note that it was released in 1967. Same year as the Moby Grape, Hendrix, Doors, and Velvets debuts. I don't put this much below them.
Otherwise, I'm going to rest on what C said. B is the son of "Lonesome Dove" writer Larry McMurtry but, imo, has not inherited his dad's skill for tight narrative (though I recognize his intensity and forthrightness as a good thing).
Easy, easy. A.
Otherwise, I'm going to rest on what C said. B is the son of "Lonesome Dove" writer Larry McMurtry but, imo, has not inherited his dad's skill for tight narrative (though I recognize his intensity and forthrightness as a good thing).
Easy, easy. A.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
Tipping my hat to
B
nice mix of Cockburn and Baerwald.
B
nice mix of Cockburn and Baerwald.
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Love B.
Best track so far. Apart from Adge of course.
Best track so far. Apart from Adge of course.
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B is lovely!
And also because my definitive version of A (apart from the immortal Young Tradition one, of course) is this:
And also because my definitive version of A (apart from the immortal Young Tradition one, of course) is this:
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
I liked both of these, A is the more folky of the two but I just slightly prefered B
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A's one of those folk tracks that was probably written for Morris dancing, rather than for drinking yourself into a depressed stupor. And I'm definitely a depressed stupor kinda guy. I just find this kinda thing a bit forced. T'is good guitar from McCarthy though.
B's really not my kinda thing at all, either, and not very folky. Some kinda country-tinged rawk dirge, with a condescending vocal style.
A
B's really not my kinda thing at all, either, and not very folky. Some kinda country-tinged rawk dirge, with a condescending vocal style.
A
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
A: Widdly
B: I'd be thrown out of Texas if I didn't carry water for James.
B
B: I'd be thrown out of Texas if I didn't carry water for James.
B
You read that in a book, didn't you?!
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
Neither is really in my wheelhouse, but B is more so.
B
B
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A was nothing that great sort of mix of annoying and good
B classic James although a bit long
B
B classic James although a bit long
B
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I have plenty of time for Swarb of course but stuff like this can get a bit "jigs and reels" which os fine but tends to sounde generic and I have all McMurtyry's albums, so
B
B
We're way past rhubarb
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Re: Folk Cup 2019 Round 5 Match 7
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