hairy old hippy
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Posted: Aug. 03 2012, 05:25 |
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With reference to this notion of a lack of hand-played music at the moment, it is actually nonsense. For a number of years now there has been a huge renaissence in folk and acoustic music. I mean folk music is cool now! Not only that, it is the general consensus that the young folk musicians emerging at the moment are actually better musicians than those involved in the first folk revival of the 1960's or at any time since.
I've seen evidence of this first hand. I run acoustic music events in the fine city of Norwich and in the space of a year I rarely have to repeat any performers, obviously I re-book the exceptional ones. Some of these sprogs are as young as 15 and so incredibly adept it can take your breath away such as the guys in this video known as Tozer, McKemmie & Dransfield.
Tozer, Mckemmie and Dransfield - The Music House Norwich
What I will say though is that since production and everything else to do with music is so easy to achieve at home these days I feel there may have been a down turn in focus on melodies/the tune itself. But then being an Oldfield fan gives you your own bench-mark because Oldfield is so incredibly good at writing very, very strong, catchy and memorable tunes. The young chaps in the video aren't short of meoldy though!!
So in short; get yourselves out and digging for all this great hand-played music, it's out there you've just got to find it.
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Listen to Mohribold; an epic musical tapestry that weaves between a multitude of genres.
Andrew Taylor's Mohribold album has proved very popular with fans of symphonic-rock, prog-rock, psych-folk and indeed Oldfield's classic albums!
www.andrewtaylor.bandcamp.com
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wake upe guys !! Mike was surely joking ( i hope so anyway )when he said that ! Rod Stewart please no ! ...and sorry to hurt you but Elton John please no ! 
Harry Connick Junior would be a great choice for a jazzy voice and Charlie Winston great too for a gravelly voice ! With them he could touch a large audience ! 
