WLD,

I'm sure that you're going to label me as a snob or an elitist (or at least something bad) because of this - but if Status Quo or The Stones started recording English Trad. songs, well, I might even kill myself - and it would all be your fault!!

No, I withdraw that threat of suicide because (a) one should never threaten such a thing and (b) ... it would be my fault ... wouldn't it ?

Anyway, I would be very, very, very peeved indeed!

You see (and I'm sure I've said this to you before), I really, really hate rock music (and I've hated it since I was a small child). One of the many reasons why I prefer English Trad. song is precisely because it's not rock music (not a noisy, ugly, brutish racket!).

I believe that one of the reasons why 'we' seem to despise English trad. song so much is because our culture is steeped and marinated in rock music and now 'we' can't imagine that anything which sounds different from it can have any value. Now that 'we've' converted all the fields to intensive ley meadows and oil seed rape and concreted over everything else 'we' can't imagine what the old 'flowery meads' looked like or recognise the value of one if 'we' were to catch a glimpse of it.