Folkwrongica

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I got absorbed enough in this Guardian piece to miss my tube stop:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2071468,00.html

A lot of its anecdotal material is good and I can't much disagree with the central argument (tho as they admit Tosches summarises it more neatly) but I didn't like the conclusion - even as a staunch poptimist "the inherent democracy of pop junk" is a MASSIVE handwave.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There are two Lomaxes (Lomaxi?) though!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, right, it's his son Alan that's got more of the publicity, I don't really know the difference.

(Actually of course the Lomax revival started at least slightly earlier, when Moby released Play)