"to a bloke who has been in the folk scene since before Shakespeare was born that is galling Jim. "
Which tells be everything about the folk scene that I need to know.
I came into folk music in 1960ish
I sand, I helped run clubs,I read about it, I attended lectures to learn about it, I've given a dozen or so lectures on it - including at two universities, I've written about it, I've been involved in issuing around twenty CDs of it, I spent thity to forty years recoding traditional singers singing and talking about it I've archived our recordings in Dublin (2 archives) and in The British Library.
We have now embarjked on two hour long radio programmes to the centenary of the birth of a dear friend whose contribution to folk music in Britain outstrips any other individuals I have ever met
In order to do this, we have had to refuse an offer of another radio programme on our Irish work - also for Irish radio
Next month we will have finalised the making available over four hundred songs collected in one small area of this county - leaving our Norfolk and our Irish Traveller collection to sort out before we snuff it (not to mention the 10 years of recordings of Critics group meetings and other connected material, which we will have to leave to posterity to sort out).
I hope you understand my getting somewhat pissed off being told that I'm wasting my time nad I haven't a clue what I am doing so I should be doing something else by somebody who appears to spend a great time damaging young people's ears and another whose music sounds nothing like that I have devoted over half my life to.
What substances are you people on?
Jim Carroll