Take no notice of those other phoney Toms. Richard is quite right. Under the 1954 definition people like me are not actually folk singers, and we are wrong to call ourselves such. Technically, we should not be booked at folk clubs or folk festivals, and cartainly - as Dave Sissons has just kindly pointed out in Stirrings - we should not be encouraged to write songs influenced by tradition, and certainly we should NOT bring out CDs! LOL

I stand corrected Richard. I've got my coat already, I'm only popping back in for that plectrum I dropped...