I remember one night I was in a music pub.

This guy came in with a cardboard box full of folk cds. He said, help yourself everybody...

Turns out he worked, or he ran or owned one of these three or four agencies that call the shots.

All these people had asked him to listen with a view to an audition. Had he listened to any of them.
He actually laughed at the mere idea.

The same attitude is there in Froots also ran column...you have to be able to buy into the folk aristocracy.

The nice thing about life is that when people withold their respect - you learn to live without it, and if you work at your craft - you will find audiences. And theres a whole country full of folk based musicians saying...fuck 'em.

Maybe not the unaccompanied ballad singers, Jim Carrol believes the folk world is clamouring for and being cruelly denied. But musicians influenced by the great folk scare artists of the 1960's and 70's. artists with something to say other than - look how different I am from the plebs.