the music to support the story of the lyric as I do.
The challenge then is to come up with music that does both things – that tells a story but also makes people want to dance. This is something we often try to achieve with Bellowhead, but also, in a quieter way, with Spiers & Boden.
We rarely have tracks that are just a-rhythmical ballads or just all-guns-firing dance
tracks. We are always trying to bring in elements from both sides of our respective backgrounds to give the whole thing a sense of unity. Having said that we both have a purest streak in us.
This is most obviously represented by my on-going
www.afolksongaday.com project, in which most of the 365 newly recorded songs are unaccompanied and traditional. Similarly John is never more in his element
than when playing traditional Morris or country dance tunes solo on melodeon or concertina.
I think it’s important to keep in touch with those purer forms of folk music so that when you are messing with it – bringing in other musical influences and modes of performance, you are coming at it with an instinctive understanding of where the music comes from.
JB
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