Old Tunes
Stephen Sedley, 16 July 2020
The poet and songwriter Sydney Carter – remember ‘Lord of the Dance’? – wasn’t the only observer to notice that the 1950s British folk song revival was being accompanied, and occasionally drowned out, by the clang of cash registers. His song ‘Man with the Microphone’ began:
As I roved out one morningI was singing a country songI met a man with a...