Sunjay doesn't confine himself to American material. his biggest single influence was probably the late Roger Brooks. Roger was from West Bridgford in Nottingham. He was championed in this country by Rosie Hardman, and played in folk festivals and folk clubs up and down England for many years. Roger's tour de force was a song about the paris riots called Street riot. Its an astonishing piece of guitar playing and currently Roger's ex girlfriend, Bournemouth based Nicky Haan and Sunjay are the only people I know who can play it.

As the traddy disease bit deeper and put more folk clubs out of business, Roger was forced to work on the continent more and eventually commuted between the pubs round St Ives in Cornwall and Norway.

If you'd be paying attention to real English folk music, i.e. the sort played by English people in English folk clubs you wouldn't need me to tell you - or require your taste to be underwritten by some daft 1954 definition.

And Pip you wouldn't have to look further than this site to find people slagging off ralph McTell for singing in an Americanised accent. And what you could say about Ralph - you could surely say about Renbourn and Bert.