[mplpost] Blues on a Canadian folk list

Johnny V jam@spots.ab.ca
Sun Jun 17 14:13:54 2001


Couldn't have said it better myself Richard...

Well done...

regards
Johnny

>Asks Helen Highwater, sounding a tad irritated:
>
>>Hello, excuse me, but what does a blues radio show in Utah have to do
>>with Canadian folk music?
>
>Responds Flohil:
>
>1) The blues IS folk music.
>2) Grant is a Canadian who plays a lot of Canadian blues music.
>3) He's welcome to send playlists to this list, if he wants to, sez me -
>who read his
> 	playlists dilligently.
>4) If Harry Bryan can post his lists of Canadian airplay as reported to a
>folk DJ list, I
>	dunno why Grant can't post his lists.
>5) One more time:  The blues IS folk music. Period. End.  And is accepted
>as such by just
>	'bout everybody, except maybe the finger-in-ear devotees of English
>folk song
>	 and Childe ballads (one of the roots of the blues, incidentally).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard
>
>
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