:0)......Ah Andy, good to see that irony is not dead!
Tattie...
"It then becomes restricted to the same 4 people, so in that sense it dies a death too! Complete turn-off for the rest of us!"

" The rest of us" should be aware that what drove the music of people like Ewan MacColl, Pete Seeger, or Woody Guthry was in the main political ideology. It is therefor imperative on a forum like this, to study that ideology in any discussion involving the performers or their output.
Dylan was free from these restraints, which infuriated the ideologues like Seeger and MacColl.