Davie Robertson is no more in touch with the Scottish folk scene than Jim Carroll is with the English one. He stays at home in Longniddry, probably hasn't been to any folk event in the last ten years, and has probably never even heard Steve Byrne or Siobhan Miller.

Yes, it would be good to have more singers working in Scots (and less American-style torch singers dropping in the odd Scots word so the arts establishment can hand out grants to them while pretending to boost Scottish culture). But that kind of griping is no way to make it happen.