Hard to say, but I think you're right. I think maybe this is something to do with our societies - and the folk music phenomena in them.

A lot of people in the English folk scene, for various reasons, feel discriminated against and disenfranchised. People that you would assume to be respectable musicians making a decent living in a more meritocratic society like America, live lives of quiet desperation. A place like mudcat is somewhere for them to let off steam - to mainly like minded people, who see the issues as clearly as they do themselves.

When Peter Bellamy died I remember listening to Martin Carthy's obituary piece on the radio, and he spoke of the isolation that this particular pursuit of music imposed.

So when we get here - we're a mouthy lot. Sorry about that!