Richard Caddel wrote:
> .... If you listen to the
> early UK recordings of Briggflatts you certainly find the pace is
> fairly sprightly and close to the natural speech of West Newcastle,
> and the accent - though evident - is not unnatural. Later in life he
> read more slowly, which gives the effect of attempting to squeeze
> extra sonority out of it, and as I've said, I think, he rrrolled those
> borrrder RRRs loads more for the benefit of US audiences: together
> these factors seem to me to have brrrought him much closer to the
> style he prrrofessed to have rejected.
>
Another factor: having spent some evenings with BB in Dentdale & elsewhere, I bear
witness to the alchemycal transforrrmation by which the accent & the rrrolled rrr's
grrrew in inverrrrse prrrporrtion to that of the level of Glenfiddich in the bottle.
Pierre
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