Oh, re rough edges, 1978 stuff I think. But then I wouldn't know what mastering has done to the original, though I could guess that it's made the sound rather brighter than it was, because for some reason remastering engineers tend to do that. Maybe that accounts for the rather brittle sound quality.

I was thinking more of the playing, but all recorded folk music was like that then; now we live in an audio world of digital cut'n'paste, pitch correction etc. and are led to expect clinical standard of perfection. I was quite shocked the other day listening to a John Kirkpatrick album of the same era: fluffed notes all over the place!

Never mind, it's the music that counts. The enthusiasm and sense of adventure of the musicians in Crookfinger Jack is palpable. What I hear is you all loved the music to bits and wanted to share that with your audience. Maybe some of the excitement of discovery too.

Les, you should buy direct from Greg, and Greg - you should have posted details of how to do that!

Anahata