The music doesn't need help from God, it is thriving in a way that is exciting and heartening at the same time. You might like folk music if you bothered to listen to it.



I think I'm getting the gist of the tit trouser credibility. Here goes;

Said Red Molly to James
That's a fine motorbike
With a fol de rol rol


Jim waffling on about difference in policy, says it all. What policy you old fool? It's music. You like it or you don't. For 99% of people who say they like folk, they like the music. Whether Al wrote it yesterday, Tit Trousers learnt it at his mother's knee or Martin Carthy is singing a rock song in a style known to be popular amongst folk loving audiences, th th that's all folk!

I recall one of the Norfolk "originals" who I shan't name because best not shatter the dream, introducing a song he claimed had been sung in a nearby village to him with these words as he was singing them. Including the additional line put in by Nic Jones to make it scan better. 😹 not to mention his colleagues and my dear late family friends Tom and Bertha Brown, who sang one of my songs on the radio, telling Jim Lloyd it was in Tom's family for years.

It's music Jim. The provenance doesn't legitimise it, it gives it a romanticism that new songs can't have. But to distinguish on so called policy grounds??

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