The good Cap'n doesn't, apparently, know a lot about the Folk Awards nor has he spent much time listening to them. That's why I tried to send him off to read the webpage. What is a lot more alarming is that a fair number of contributors to this and other threads admit to never having heard of many of the nominees, despite the relevant CDs having been available all year.

So how, exactly, would Mudcat folk awards be more "representative"? And of what?