The ordinary people don't have a voice in folk music, it's been taken over by 'academics' Jim. That's what drives me nuts. I'm too political for folk music anyway, I *want* the protest songs and they want 'larks in the morning' (oer-er missus!) Ewan MacColl, I feel, is partly responsible for all the crazy rules and regulations which keep the traditional folk world small.

Right, I'm not really here, as I said I'd not come into this thread, :0) but I just needed to say that.