Many thanks for everyone keeping this thread flowing.

"all competent musicians,but the result [imo]was a bland mish mash of rootlessness,the music lacked something, the joi de vivre was missing"

Aye, I'm afraid I can't disagree with that summation Good Soldier - it tallies with some of my own thoughts! Despite best intentions and worthy efforts, I've found a lot of revival folk tricky in the whole to 'get into', but especially the more current 'revival' bands. But while there is good stuff out there, I finally cracked the other day upon listening to Jim Causley's 'Rolling of the Stones', which (IMO) was so devoid of any heart or genuine feeling for the *song* that I likened his rendering to a lifeless corpse being dragged along behind a jolly waggon of rustic merrymakers (fiddles, squeezeboxes and all).

The *song* however was so good, that I was inspired to learn to sing it for myself. (..luckily for me of course, Mr. Causley will never be in a position to slag my rendering of RotS's orf, hehe!)

Keep on Keeping it Real Folk Fans!