Tootler
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Excellent thread. I find this type of music much more fun than covering pop songs!
Agreed, though I also like covering pop songs sometimes. It depends on the song. My first love is folk music, though.
A lot of Appalachian Folk songs came originally from the British Isles, but they changed and the singing style is different.
Here is an example
This version of Cruel Ship's Carpenter was collected by Cecil Sharpe in North Carolina on a visit to the Appalachians in 1916/17: http://youtu.be/o78lR7mj7aI
I don't sing it in an Appalachian style, though.