Dear Readers,
If you ever find yourself in need of writing a folk song in a jiffy, this list should get you started.
This list was compiled through arduous listening sessions to music compiled by Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, and Moses Asch… oh and you know and stuff by Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly and Roscoe Holcomb and Robert Johnson and all those old-timey folk singers that are so much better than the musicians today.
So much better.
I say so much better mostly because all those old folk singers are dead, and I have no access to them, except through glimpses of their glory captured on vinyl.
And the things I have no access to always seem great. Like Heaven.
I don’t mean Heaven is forever shut to me, but I mean that right this second the Holy Place of Never-ending Bliss is far, far away.
Maybe if we started singin' about the things in this list, we'd produce better music. Ha ha ha.
Without further ado, here’s the list:
1. Dust
2. Trains
3. Boots
4. Oh
5. them rich folk from town
6. that old river
7. fruit
8. Ol’ Bill
9. Moonshine
10. the paper
11. injustice
12. women
13. animals
14. cotton
15. Standin’ on the corner
16. Momma
17. a graveyard
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
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2 comments:
Music rox my sox.
I wish I could make a living out of it.
I know a kid who dropped out of college to be a rock star.
Dream on buddy.
I got a cd of this other kids music. Its really cool that kids at my school are making music, and giving it to me.
And Local bands like Citizen Saint is the best band in the whole world plus two.
And I write music, I should put words to it, prolly folk, or gothic, or modern music is my style.
I was told to participate in the bluegrass festival because I play the orange blossom special so well.
And I'm the only one in this town who knows how to use a fiddle!
but I'm skeptical as to the existence and credibility of this bluegrass festival.
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