Sigh.

The criteria for Best Traditional Track, as published by Smoothops, is as follows:

The best performance of any traditional song or tune on CD released during the past 12 months. This is a category designed to recognise the work of people recording traditional material. It is to be a new recording of a traditional song, from any tradition.

If that leaves John Barden speechless, so be it. Actually, it renders me a little bit that way too, though for reasons unconnnected with whatever I may or may not think of Mr Lakeperson but because of doubts about the competence of the so-called panel of experts and even more so after the sheer pig-headed arrogance of John Leonard and the rest of his Smoothies. They (not Seth) have brought the Folk Awards into disrepute. As peeps would know if they could be arsed to keep up and read the thread.