Yes indeed - the truth is most of the music which holds the Mudcat tigether would fit into the catalogue of music that "it's not all right to like", grudgingly amended at times to "now it is all right to like"...

So I'm not surprised that the people posting on this thread evidently share my disdain for that way of thinking.

One thing I've noticed is that, while the newspapers, when they run music supplements and so forth, will generally ignore folk music as a category, and sneer at the whole concept, when they are actually doing reviews, very often the records they go nuts over tend to be records that fall pretty squarely within the folk music orbit.
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Gracie Fields.