Confused by modern "Indie" folk music

[Denny B]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

Reminds me of stuff I heard dudes doing in the sixties and sorry, but not in a good way.
To each his own of course.

Where's Bluto when we need him?

[Mr. Jelly]

I have to admit that I don't understand any of it. All of it seems like pop songs with a sound that puts it into a marketing category of sorts. I'm reading a music history book called "Linthead Stomp" that pretty much makes the case that that has always been true.

[Dirk Hofman]

Originally Posted by Larry Pattis

🤣

Still vertical.

But apparently a zombie...

[rogatsby]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

Reminds me of stuff I heard dudes doing in the sixties and sorry, but not in a good way.
To each his own of course.

Yes, to each his own. I love songs like this, although my version is ver6 different from the original.

[fumei]

Originally Posted by Flying Orca

"Indie" means no big-label support - it has little to do with genre or style. As for the writing, well, the 60s were fifty bloody years ago, and things change in half a century. Judging today's outstanding songwriters by comparing them to Dylan (ugh) is about as useful as judging Dylan by comparing him to Tin Pan Alley.

I personally think that comparing Dylan to Tin Pan Alley is both useful AND relevant. In that vein I think it IS valid to compare today's outstanding songwriters to Dylan, which BTW I am not a super fan of. Nevertheless I think there is a useful comparison.

By the way, when is a songwriter deemed "outstanding", and by whom???

[frankmcr]

Originally Posted by fumei

By the way, when is a songwriter deemed "outstanding", and by whom???

When Universal Music buys your entire songwriting catalog for somewhere over two hundred million dollars . . .