We generally I'm reckoned to be pretty eclectic in what I play - hardly narrow. I just find middle class values sort of skewed.

John Peel, for example, reckoned generally to be the high priest of maverick talent at the BBC. Here was a guy who played on the world service the most hackneyed reggae, and African high life, the most cacophonous and outrageous punk music he could lay his hands on - yet I can remember on TV one time he didn't recognise a Merle Haggard song that everyone at the local miners welfare country music night would have been able identify.

It was only really when Elvis Costello did the George Jones song that it became 'acceptable' for the middle classes to listen to some country music. Not the rubbish of course - and they (being made of sterner stuff than the rest of us) would unfailingly recognise that,
And still some people in folk clubs turn their noses up at any American country music.