Message from @fallot
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I've resigned myself to most people never "getting it", which is fine
their lives can still be meaningful and important
it just seems a shame
They would be more meaningful and important if they could be helped to see what was meaningful and important
there is also the issue of if people can be shown
I don't have many successes, the ones I do have are not ordinary people
and I can't claim them for myself
What do I like about Guthrie? Good question.
I enjoy folk music, usually. I like folk themes. They remind me of something
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I don't want to give platitudes, but I think people can be encouraged to have some understanding of the difference between musical content and lyrical content
"forgotten"? I can't place the word.
They have to give a fuck first
All good music is essentially nostalgic in my opinion
But I admit many of his recordings are not necessarily very rousing.
all good music feels familiar, feels "just right"
Eh
The other Americana guy I was introduced to around the same time is Will Taylor.
He recorded his debut solo album with just his banjo and his voice.
2nd album had a full band, ruined it IMHO. Sounded like cheesy country dance hall.
Good music feels like an extension of yourself but I wouldn't call it nostalgic
It's the best word I had
I don't mean it evokes nostalgia as an aesthetic
that better?
I was drunk last night wanting to wage war with anglos
all art is divine
Folk music treads through stories that aren't mine but they still feel half-remembered.
of all the arts, music is the one with the most immediate link to transcendent experience
I knew nothing of baseball as a boy but this song can put me over the edge.
it's literally otherworldly
Nostalgic reminds me of retro gaming and pulling out action figures out of a long forgotten chest
even when worldly, it gives life meaning, so is transcendent in a way
yeah, I don't mean it like that
imagine if in 20 years, heavy metal is forgotten, forever
the music remains, available and preserved
but no one seeks it out
until the end of time
people at a certain point notice it as a sociological thing, make a study out of it
but don't actually get into it
no one would notice, no one would care, unheard, unsung
that would be criminal I think
humanity would have something to answer for
I don't know