Of course its a fucking industry. And you used to be part of it with your reviews. (Or marketing as we call it.)

Sanctimonious sod.

Folk music is a genre, enjoyed by millions of people who buy records and go to concerts and festivals, and also by those whose only interest is a rather narrow historical part of a living tradition.




Lefty? You ought to have a word with Bridge. At least he knows I'm a dirty rotten bleeding capitalist....

There again, Jim disagrees with you too. He reckons I'm a goose stepper. (For anyone stumbling on the thread, a goose stepper is, by Jim's reckoning, anyone who buys a contemporary folk album and calls it folk.)