interesting...

Mudcat was in many ways like the folk movement - an artistic movement that was more than the sum of all its parts.

i can remember my dismay years ago reading a review of Harvey Andrews latest album. the reviewer said, this is the review i wish i would never have to write. his point was that the album didn't contain an obvious hit record or hit song. and thus in his view Harvey was probably condemned to cultural insignificance

With a traditional artist like yourself, Brian the cultural importance is taken to be the depth of vision (i hope).

up to reading that review - i'd always thought there was a sort of brotherhood of folk artists. i was dismayed to find out that poor Harvey was expected to slug it out for significance, with the Bay City Rollers.

somewhere along the line we stopped believing in ourselves, our own significance. And of the four of us - one feels that THe Bay City Rollers got the best of it. And maybe that's the new folk music.