Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

I discovered and fell in love with Fairport convention about 25 years ago or so. It was a natural offshoot of my passion and love for English folktales and late medieval studies. I wasn’t alive when they were setting the tone for everybody from Kate rusby to Hank dogs to Steeleye span to even Jethro Tull and Mumford & sons, but something in their music and Sandy’s delivery just resonated. I still teach "Mattie Groves" in just about all my classes and the kids usually love diving into the power dynamics and the tones of each character. Plus, one kid even pointed out that the song has "massive remix potential".

@audio-b-dog 

I own Veedon Fleece, so Cul de Sac is a familiar track. Perhaps because it’s familiar, I’m not hearing as as freshly as you are?  Sounds to me me like he’s channeling his old school R&B influences. 

Didn't mean to overwhelm you with suggestions. ;o)

Much conflict  is the result of generalizations. Big ones make for big misunderstanding.

Here a real issue is how general equal is without specifics. It means the same... but unspecified it is a grenade. So, use the word and one person thinks power one thinks intelligence... or one height and one strength... etc. Women are clearly not the same... just look at a man and a women... do they look the same? Do they both bear children. So all this discussion is about specific generalized attributes. Power, leadership, etc. I would imagine one could have more meaningful... obviously not here... discussions on individual attributes. 

@ghdprentic

You're right. Not the place for it. I could probably start a forum on it since so many people have opinions and reactions, but Audiogon is probably not the place for that either.

I'm going to post a female singer who some of you might not be familiar with and others may be only familiar with her hits sung by her or others, like "Stone Cold Picnic." I have chosen a song that many of you might not have heard of. Try not to reject her off the bat. I went to see her live before she died (at 52, I think), and Madonna and Warren Beaty were in the row behind me. I think Madonna admired Laura Nyro as the real deal. And she was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FIK2oyiCs

I'm going to post one more. I heard about Laura Nyro in the early seventies. I was teaching high school students and a few of the girls came to me and said they'd been to a Laura Nyro concert and she blew them away. I have always listened to women when it came to music and art. It's opened up the other half of the world to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08oLOHVDEYc