Hi, Just wanted to stick my oar in. I sympathise with the comments on the awards. I do feel that things are not so simple these days in any arena. Perhaps Leige and Lief is one of those albums which kind of gave the impetus to things in terms of style and direction. I do feel that it still has something special about it, other worldly. Now you may say so what, or what's that got to do with folk music. But thinking about the debate on what is folk (and I don't want to start up yet another debate on the subject here) I like Bert Lloyd's comments that whatever you think it is, it seems to arise from a deeper consciousness and a song of common experience delivered by performer who (hopefully out of inspiration rather than affectation) sings with eyes closed or a a distant gaze as if drawing on something beyond the scope of the individual.

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