No idea Phil. Genuine answer.

I just hear so many people introduce a song as "possibly not folk" it seems obvious and from catching many a person afterwards at the bar and chatting, that at some stage, someone has said "that isn't folk."

So so sad, and why so many clubs are calling themselves acoustic or roots clubs now, because of the stigma the weirdbeards have given good, contemporary folk.

Interesting Hitchin FOLK Club list there Dick. Wild Willy Barrett is also touring with his old mate John Otway at present. I used to jam with him at "The Junction" at Bulbourne.

Michael astounds me with his insistence that folk should be reserved for such a narrow band of what is folk. I just read the latest edition of "Acoustic Guitar." They have a listing of the latest album releases that readers may be interested in. I suppose real journalists know what people expect by the word folk eh?

Perhaps Michael, traditional songs are called folk too because someone said so? Such statements are Tommy Twoways, to quote Gyles Brandreth.


A taxi driver doesn't need to know horse husbandry in order to get a hackney licence.