"My objection has been from the beginning and remains, that club after club I stopped going to no longer presented anything resembling folk song.
It was summed up perfectly for me one time when we had booked Walter Pardon for The Singers and Pat rang around several clubs in the South East area to see if she couldn't get him a couple more to make the trip worth his while.
On spec, she rang one and asked did they want to book him.
The nice lady on the other end said she had never heard of him and cou[ld Pat explain what Walter did.
Pat explained who he was, told her of his experience at clubs and the half dozen solo albums he had made.
"Sorry", came the reply, "we only book folk singers".
Nuff sed.
Jim Carroll"
jim you are generalising from one particular incident.