Twang Furty Takes Five
February, 1965
In his recent comprehensive and scholarly book on folk music, But Seriously—Folk..., Matthew Freen says, "Show me 180 sweating, illiterate field hands on the bayous of Louisiana releasing their anger, frustrations and boredom in spontaneous songs and I'll show you 180 listeners."Freen is, of course, a musical purist—a fact that is further borne out in his recent article in Down Beat entitled "Why Do Blind Beggars Always Sing Off Key?" So it is perhaps quite significant that h...
