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Listed below are comments made by rfoxwords between Thursday, 13th November 2008 and Thursday, 22nd October 2009.

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Tom Russell: Savage Rants from the Minstrel Trail - Part 1 5:27pm on 22 Oct 2009 Yes, I'd agree with the comment above. Except I'd add about a hundred more songs...some by Karine Polwart (at least a couple from 'This Earthly Spell'), one or two by Martin Simpson, some Rusby, that Chumbawamba song 'Word Bomber', lots of Boo Hewerdine compositions...I could be here all day!
The difference between all the above and Dylan is the amount of exposure they get in the wider media perhaps. Not much gets through the thick layer of bland at the top these days.
Karine Responds To Email Complaint 12:26pm on 19 Aug 2009 I believe the saying here might be 'you can't please all of the people all of the time'!
You please an awful lot of people though...an awful lot of the time...with all kinds of songs (whether quite listen-ins or big loud singalongas). Most of us love all of them.
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Jim Moray on the Question 'What is Folk Music?' 1:22pm on 13 Dec 2008 It happens in every area of the arts - awards and prizes cause a lot of...differences of opinion! And there are so many of them that the differences of opinion can seem neverending.

I suppose maybe the froots one could be for music from non-English speaking countries (because music from those countries does always seem to be higher profile...or is that just because I live in a mostly English speaking country - Scotland?). Of course it would be a bit of a nonsense when it comes to instrumental music...or would it?

As for the' is it or is it not folk'...'is it or is it not art', 'is it or is it not poetry', 'is it or is it not classical music'...that one (and all the others) will run and run!

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John McCusker Blog - Part 1 2:35pm on 13 Nov 2008 I just love the name of this project 'Under One Sky'. Every time I see or hear it it makes me smile. Who came up with the name I wonder?

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