Pete said "That's not a folk club, it's an anything club" -- not a "nothing" one as you misquote, Al. If you are going virulently to attack an influential statement by a dead man {"effrontery and arrogance of every traddie fundamentalist"} wouldn't it be well to cite it accurately?

Baez and Seeger sang predominantly traditional songs; Dylan and Donovan didn't. The first three named were American, the fourth wasn't -- as you accurately assert he wasn't English; but he was a Scot!; yet you write as if the influence you claim was entirely based on that of American singer-songwriters.

With so much confusion and inaccuracy, why act so wounded because some people might not consider your effusions self-evidently entitled to the nomenclature and status you claim for them?

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