Folk Tales

It is obviously necessary for a writer to read but it is also important to get as much creativity into your life as possible. For me that includes music and last night I went to see Seth Lakeman, a West Country folk musician. What I love about folk songs is that they tell stories, almost like an oral history, of times, places and people long gone. There are academics, particularly in the US that use folk music as an important source of evidence for historical and cultural studies. Not only can you sit back and listen to a tale but you can feel it through the language of the music. Check Seth out at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-ZdSLaUOY