27. GOT THE FARM LAND BLUES BY THE CAROLINA TAR HEELS, 1932

REMIX: BILL DRUMMOND, POSTER 149, 2007

Tracing through a personal history of the Scottish folk music of his childhood, (“other than hymns sung in church, it was the only sort of music...”), learning to play blues guitar and discovering Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, Leadbelly and Johnny Cash, Drummond’s lifelong relationship with folk music weaves together its many strands. This poster reflects his feeling of fakeness and voyeurism about a genre that was not written or performed for him or documented his experiences of life. “I get my kicks from these songs vicariously. There is something fundamentally very fake about me liking this music. It says something about me that I don’t like.”

Scottish artist Bill Drummond has used various media in his practice including actions, music and words. His works are too numerous to list, some more infamous than others; his music from the multi-million selling KLF to the choral music of The17; the words have accumulated into numerous books.

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