"A L Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Mike Waterson et al, all of whom I love dearly & all of whom nurture / affect / approximate a Folk Voice rather than sing things straight. Maybe it's not possible to sing straight in this day & age - soon as you open your mouth you're going be singing in a received style." Suibhne above

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Have just got to quote it again,~ sorry. After a folksong evening I did at the Eye Theatre in Suffolk, the critic of the local paper wrote ~~ 'An unpretentious performer, he can talk to the audience in very middle class tones and then, without putting on the folk voice, can still go right into the spirit of a song.'
             Basil Abbott - Norfolk & Suffolk Express - 14 Feb 1992

Nicest thing anybody has ever said about me ~~ well, one of them, anyhow.

~M~