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When i think of folk music, i think of topical songs. and i don't write topical songs.
-Ray LaMontagne
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When I Think Of Folk Music, I

Ray LaMontagne
When i think of folk music, i think of topical songs. and i don't write topical songs.
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In the united states, many people said you can't have folk music in the united states because you don't have any peasant class. but the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. these songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. so gradually they said well let's call it folk music.
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I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. there's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. well they're not good enough. write it! i want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. you're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. that's what i really think it is. well it's all right. well, how do you know? it's not done!
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I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. they usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. you can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.
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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. we wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. a folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. a folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. it depends on who's playing and who's listening.
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He [alan lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. he found a young actor named burl ives and said, "burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" he put on radio programs. he persuaded cbs to dedicate "the school of the air" for one year to american folk music. he'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.
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I love commercial music! i can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. but without any thought, i just enjoy it. it's folk music. that's what i'm doing, folk music. i'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. i'm just doing the music i enjoy.
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