Sorry, I forgot what a lot of precious little flowers you all are on the folk scene nowadays! I wonder why, when personal icons are criticised everybody starts throwing their toys out of the pram.
I am not particularly enamoured of Liza Carthy's singing, what she does to traditional song doesn't do it for me and I would not in a thousand years use her as an example of traditional English music.
The type of reaction here describes perfectly what I believe to be 'folk policing' and if we are not allowed to express our opinions - what's the point of talking to each other? If Dave Swarbrick hooked it because somebody said they didn't like his playing, maybe he's as well out of it.
Please grow up - as Jon rightly said, "I didn't see much ought/ought not" in this thread either.
Jim Carroll