Good point, jOhn!

Still greg has a point too. I wouldn`t mind hearing a good singer/songwriter when I go to a folk-club, pub etc. provided that he knows something about folk music(this is why we need te `cat!), that it shows in his music and that he can play a tune...

The problem these days seems to be that many singer/songwriters are more or less pop/rock-singers gone solo-acoustic. Consequently they just strum along to their songs while their lyrics are just as meaningless and boring as any pop-muzak you hear on the radio.

And yeah... acoustic... all those "unplugged" was a lie: it were amplified acoustic instruments. Pop/Rock musicians seem to depend on them, because they never learned anything else. And often it doesn`t even help understanding the music - in pubs it only causes the people to talk louder...

There are a lot of Grumpies like us, Greg.

Regards
Ernest