"Jim Carroll thinks were the bees knees singing real folk music and boring the arse of everyone."
Why do you insist on doing this Al?
The singers Club was boring full houses right up to the death of MacColl
The 1970s/80s was e of the best times for folk music - it was more or less guaranteed that if you turned up to a folk club you'd hear folk songs - the crash came when that ceased to be the case.
Throughout that time Folk had a fair selection of its own magazines and even its own shops - can't say that - very different from the anything goes/and you don't need to know the words or tune to sing at a a folk club ethos that pervails nowadays.
If you find folk song boring, why not try hip-hop and stop knocking those of us who do?
Didn't intend to take part in this - I've said what I have to say on Alex.
Give your arse a chance Al, as we used to say in Liverpool!
Jim Carroll