Declan wrote, "I agree with Jack's basic point that traditional music is not jazz or rock music and backing it as if it was never sounds right".

I agree 100%, except...I've just been copying a 30 year old cassette tape I made of a performance by Shetland fiddlers Tom Anderson and Aly Bain, accompanied by the wonderful "Peerie" Willie Johnson on guitar. Willie's guitar playing was of course rooted in jazz, but because he was also rooted in traditional Shetland music he was able to use that style to accompany the fiddle tunes in a way which sounded absolutely right. It took a deep understanding of both forms of music to pull it off successfully.

The recording is of a concert they played at Castleton Folk Club, but it was just a small part of a wonderful weekend spent playing all day in Derbyshire pubs, only leaving at the last possible minute to accompany the trio to their evening gigs, before returning to someone's house to carry on playing.