Folk clubs are doing fine Jim. The popular revival of the genre just isn't part of it.

The folk clubs doing best seem to be those who recognise all folk and welcome all styles within the genre. The others will sadly fade.

Generally speaking, those that would dismiss your main stance as irrelevant are growing, not that they gave ever heard of you that is. If you say Walter, they say "pardon?" There is usually one stickler for a club that never really existed in every club, but Jim and likeminded seem to have developed a commune on Mudcat.

The saddest part being that Father Time will play a game of last man standing if the evolution of folk is held back by reckless old farts who like to play time capsules.
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