I've received an email from Rod Stradling complaining that I posted his Folk Roots review on this thread without his permission. He is quite right and I am very sorry and I should have acted with less haste. Posting it constituted a violation of intellectual property rights, something I have had cause to complain of in the past when my own work has been violated.

I also agree with him that there is no point in stirring up a twenty year old argument.

Even so, I feel that my original contention still stands; namely that Nick Dow's allegations are a travesty of what Rod actually wrote, also that people who sided with him should not have done so without reading the review.