I suppose I'm talking about those of us, who were once gratefully accepted as part of the folk community and took out as our inspiration the guitar based stuff - Jansch, Renbourn, Gerry Lockran.

they aren't on radio 2 and they're excluded from all the folk programmes. well we ain't part of the tradition, are we.....

I'm talking about a committment to the acoustic guitar that isn't requited by Paul weller thumping away. A vanished age when an acoustic album wasn't something Eric Clapton fitted in, in his summer holidays.

A lot of the traddies weren't into the guitar - so they threw away the baby with the bathwater - the Grey Cock Club in Brum - wouldn't let you in carrying a guitar. A lot of the traddies who could play well are not active for various reasons ...Tony Rose, Nic Jones.