Actually I was answering several questions in one posting, makes sense eh?
Ahh.... the poor captain hasn't got a single thing right about me, never mind me not being able to win. Sniping...? Apparently I've been hitting the target.

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"Does that make all traddies plagiarists then?"

not traddies per se, but I can think of one or two of the traddies heroes at whom that term could be levelled against.

Least myself and my fellow band memebers do make the attempt to write our own material.

Are we folk singers? No we.re not, infact I do believe I have stated before, the British Tradition is a part, not the whole, of our repertoire. Other influences include The Carter Family, The Band, Woody Guthrie, The Weavers, Cecilia Costello, Sam Larner, Walter Pardon. The Coppers, Fairpory Convention, Bellowhead etc...etc..

Get it right!