Embry as weel as Glesca! Whaur aboots -- did ye gang tae college / uni there?
Ye maun hae veesited Sandy Bells and mony ither baurs wi' fowk music - and we must have crossed paths somewhere along the line!
I was a student in Edinburgh '66-'69, and round about the Sandy Bell's Broadsheet first appeared.
Also The Corries folk trio and Paddy Bell and many other groups and individual singers and musicians were around the place (Bert Jansch played at our college, wow!)
Jean Redpath was at Edinburgh Uni a bit earlier in the decade I think?

As for thread drift - who cares? Lots of argumentative regulars frequently take other threads off into the blue yonder! They don't have to read this if they find it boring....