i'm sorry - not going on with this.

i would just like to testify that i have expressed no untruths on this thread, its a subject i feel too strongly and principled about.

the only conclusion i am forced to is that you are incapable of understanding the principles involved much less the reasons why artistic effort in the folk world needs all our support.

i have been insulted. and there is no answer to abuse. there is no way of arguing with someone who is incapable of following an argument. incapable or unwilling.

if you haven't appropriated the term folk song on the evidence of some rubbish definition - made by people who wouldn't recognise a folk if he pissed in their ear. if you haven't ....well leave it for the rest of us, who have a definite use for the phrase.

absolutely last word.