Actually Tim I didn't say I didn't like folk music.
Thankyou for your review. I do appreciate anybody taking an interest or discussing my approach to folk music.
What I seemed to have failed to convey is that(despite having a fairly folky family background - Irish, Irish Gypsy, Lancashire miners, clogdancers) to my certain knowledge no one in the last 150 years in my family sang in the preferred accent, or in the modal style favoured by English folk revival.

In one of the great strategic mistakes of my career, I forbore from joining the great Walter Gabriel soundalike competition and tuning my guitar in DADGAD. That last (avoiding DADGAD tuning) was just narrow mindedness - Ken Nicol turned me on to its DADGAD's amazing possibilities last year.

However the shunning of adopting the all purpose rustic voice was an attempt at integrity.

It was a nice night, although I was very tired and made a few mistakes in my guitar playing. Earlier in the day I had been forced to attend a Speed Awareness course in Leicester after being done by a camera going slighly over the limit. I had driven straight there from Leicester.

Everybody was very nice to me, and you do great club over there in Market Rasen - you can be justly proud of it. I wish you all well, and thankyou for your hospitality.

al