I am pedantic about emphasis and placing of words for intelligibility and nuances of meaning (as I see them intended). The timing, perhaps even the melody may give way to the story telling. Unaccompanied songs have that free flexibility but the guitar can bend too. I am a singer with a guitar, not a guitarist who sings.
I play in a curious way; intuitive even haphazard; you'd have to see it, but its what it sounds like that matters.
"I enjoy folk music for its intimacy and immediacy, face to face across the room. Moulded by season, the day and its news, the venue, performers and audience; a transient pleasure like Burns poppy, 'seize the flower, the bloom is gone'.
The multiplicity of variants of traditional songs fascinates me but I sing anything whose content feels right. The song must be worth the effort, worth the singing for its story or message or emotion. Yes I sing some well known songs but only if something there has grabbed me.
A few songs are my own writing; I also borrow poems that deserve a wider hearing and add melodies.
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