It's the old, old story, isn't it? If you really want to make a living in the music business, then you're often forced into playing what people want to hear - what's acceptable at the time - just to eat and put a roof over your head.

As I said, I didn't care for the older Josh White that I heard on record in the 60s but, as Hoot has just said, he was trying to make a decent living. Anyone who's gigged to any extent knows the feeling. I was knocking out "Peggy Sue" in the Bat & Ball (a market traders' local full of middle-aged boozers) in Brighton yesterday afternoon. I'd much rather have been playing "Johsefin's Dopvals" on my tenor guitar - but there you go. The cash can talk sometimes.