Tell me, Diane, why is it, the merest mention of praise is considered by you to be so sickening?

You praise George when you've seen him play. You wrote a wonderful piece, once, on Chris Wood, as I recall.

People on here love Kate's music. They are NOT fanatical 'fans' as you're trying to make out, just people who appreciate her gentle voice and character.

There is nothing wrong with praise.
There is nothing wrong with gentleness.

Life is not all about vitriol, you know.

And now, back to Kate Rusby and 'her music'

From the concert I spoke of earlier in this thread, where she sang 'Underneath the Stars'..here's Kate singing the song she wrote for her grandmother, telling the love story of her grandparents...

Kate singing 'My Young Man' at the final Sidmouth International Festival 2004

Kate's not frightened of chopping and changing traditional songs around, she readily admits that, and perhaps that's why she gets such strife from some folks in the pedantic English folk world, who demand that songs are sung the 'correct' way, 'their' way.

Kate Rusby does it 'her' way.