My parents dragged me to the local factory social club just about every weekend
from when I was a little boy to my late teens..

Don't remember much/any trad folk music ever played by the top of the pops
inspired semi-pro agency booked music acts...

..and it's still the same now in the local ciderheads workingmen's social clubs.


I think my only early childhood experience of 'folk'
was on the few occasions I was made to attend Sunday school,
and I didn't put up with that too happily...

On our council estate,
[built to serve the only big factory in a small provincial town]
'Folk' was certainly not our culture.

Unless you can count my dad's Adge Cutler LPs...???

My childhood/early teens entry into 'folk' was due to the reasonabe amount of coverage
on local west country TV music shows.