2 posts tagged “folk”
To those upset people who emailed me with the 'What's the point in trying anymore' messages regaring the picture of my recycling box, please don't worry. I've written to each person's demo in that box with details of this platform so they can upload their tracks and have their stuff listened to. Simply going though them for their contact details is time-consuming enough but to give them a proper listen aswell would take forever. That picture was showing pretty much a day's work and the box wasn't that full. Luckily since starting the blogs we don't get as many mail submissions in preference of the online thing.
Update on that lyric book I was sent, it's actually from the woman in that picture. I managed to work out the return address, it belongs to someone called Mary in Trowbridge. Full of some great folk tunes. Trowbridge has one of the best folk festivals in the UK apparently, I'm wondering if this woman ever went to them. Anyhow, I'm going to photocopy the pages so I can carry on getting the better songs out of it for forwarding onto the sites that collect that sort of thing. Then I will either send it back with a letter or see if it can make it's way to Dylan's people in the states.
Looks like I may be getting my meeting with LastFM this week. How many of you out there are into LastFM? I'm only really just getting into using it as I used to be a Pandora person but the more I use it the more useful I find it. I'm still investigating possible methods of interaction between the two platforms but as always I'd be happy to pass on any suggestions you may have as regards functionality you'd like to see.
Anyway, I'm going to keep the post short today so I can get on and become an expert in various subjects I'm going to talk about tomorrow which is going to be fun.
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Gigs - 12/11/2007
Just the one tonight, but what a gig. Fox Cubs are playing the Hope and Anchor. If you've not had a listen to these chaps make sure you head over to their page and check out Beasts of England or I Could Be Wrong.
I wasn't going to write a post today as I wanted to hear you views on the London thing and Daniel Flay. Today is mail day for me aswell. I go through the mailed in submissions I get from all over the world, open them, find the contact details, tell them not to send a CD but set up a blog then I recycle the CD's.....
However, today I received something that really made me think. I often receive things out of the ordinary, sweets, teabags, a clothes peg, naked pic/underwear (difficult to recycle) etc. However, today I received this....
Someone had sent a book in addressed to Bob Dylan. On opening it I found a collection of traditional folk songs..
The dates start around the early 60's. I found an index of English and Amercian folk songs some of which I recognised, other's I didn't, is fascinating stuff.....
What made me a little sad is as the book progresses from the 60's through into the 90's the writing goes from well documented and indexed tunes into more random songs. I'm guessing as the chap got older his handwriting suffered.
I've had a look through and think I have a return address, but I thought I should share it somehow before sending it back. I'll try and copy some of the unknown songs out of it and send them onto some folk sites that collect that sort of thing. Any suggestions of sites welcome.
Please don't send on stuff though as I still have at least a day's worth of stuff to go through which takes me away from the usual things I need to do.
Hope all is well with you.
