On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:55:06 +0000, Alan wrote:
>>"All music's folk music. Leastways, I ain't never heard a hoss make
>>it"
>>
>Nice to think Louis Armstrong regarded thrushes, nightingales, canaries,
>etc as 'folk'
yeah, less of this anti-hossist critique I say, that's the kind of
thing that makes our folkmusic-police inherently biased. My favourite
Louis Armstrong story is still his response to the person who asked
him about "the function of rhythm in jazz":
"Lady, if you gotta ask you ain't never gonna know!"
RC
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