tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post8796509751951658006..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: the great English songbookMark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-13813725639135633942010-06-25T20:46:44.190-04:002010-06-25T20:46:44.190-04:00The Baglamist cut his hair!
TWThe Baglamist cut his hair! <br /><br />TWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-35524023113111502342010-06-24T16:55:51.036-04:002010-06-24T16:55:51.036-04:00Makes me think of that ad campaign from my youth:
...Makes me think of that ad campaign from my youth:<br /><br />"What becomes a legend most? A Baglama!"<br /><br />I've finally decided to learn my way around the fretboard, starting with every 13-year old's set of minor pentatonic scales & shapes. Embarrassing, but less so than endlessly envying my son's chops without doing a damned thing about it. ("Endlessly Envying"--wasn't that a CSN number?)<br /><br />Where's the YouTube clip? We want "Kashmir"!E. M. Selingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-81968377258262014992010-06-24T14:00:29.578-04:002010-06-24T14:00:29.578-04:00Both of those songs of course make the songbook. A...Both of those songs of course make the songbook. And I'm inclined to agree with you about their preƫminence, Edd; "Old Changing Way" strikes me as the purest, most fully realized marriage of traditional form & contemporary subject matter ever -- in later songs like "1952 Black Vincent" & "Beeswing," beautiful as they are, he's just rewriting "Old Changing Way."Mark Scrogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-92044390200038952732010-06-24T13:49:15.909-04:002010-06-24T13:49:15.909-04:00I'm not totally a Thompson obsessive--these da...I'm not totally a Thompson obsessive--these days I listen to more Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny and Incredible String Band than Thompson--but he's great. For me, he's never topped his very first solo thing Henry the Human Fly, altho certainly his mid-'70s output w/ Linda and of course Shoot Out are essential, I mean he did write well about the joys of ice cream..<br /><br />I still think "Old Changing Way" and "Nobody's Wedding" are about his best songs ever. Mark, will have to check out the selection on the songbook and see what they deemed meet...Edd. H.noreply@blogger.com