I suppose on reflection. About the original question. There is much that we are at odds with in this quick fix world that we live in. Our music is, for the main part, assembled painstakingly and the few technological aids that help - don't really seem to speed up its creation.

Also on the mudcat, continually we find ourselves taken to task by people who are quite old enough to know better. It is quite obvious, that we occupy the same space spiritually - on the mudcat we are like wolves that meet in a forest clearing - we damn well KNOW we are all the same species. And yet we get told, what you do isn't folk music - as though its written in stone somewhere what is folkmusic. It isn't - I have checked.

Another area of discontent seems to be aggressive marketing of the young turks of our kind of music. It seems out of proportion to what they have to say artistically. They ain't going to kick a hole in my world like Bob Dylan did in 1964 - but perhaps they would if I were still 15 years old.

And because of this factionalism, we are so much weaker as a movement that we should be. We have our own website - damn it, we should have our own satellite channel. If religious groups who still believe in a flat earth and that God created the world in 7 days can get it together - we should be able to.