Any way - what exact benefit do you feel the folk music revival derives from you saying Ralph McTell isn't folk music.

Folk music is what he has done with his life. His vision of it. Dozens of peoples' vision of it. If this was an election - you'd have lost your deposit!

I just don't get it. Ralph has surely earned the right to call himself folk music - a dozen times more than that gang of plonkers at The Grey Cock.

(It was the mention of the Grey Cock in one one Roy Palmer's books that drew me there - imagine my disappointment!)