I walked in JUST as Ade Edmondson was starting to talk about the Folk Police, followed by Martin Carthy speaking on the same subject...and I was WhoopWhoopWHOOOPING around my lounge in Grateful Delight..because the very kind of folks they were talking about are the very kind who have been following me around for YEARS, in here, on the BBC...and it was SO GOOD to hear these two men speaking the truth..and about Ewan MacColl too, who, in my book, was a bully and an OCD bully at that.... Viva Show of Hands and their Breaking It All Apart! Viva Seth Lakeman! Viva Dylan going electric! And Viva ALL those who stand up to the pedantic, controlling minds that for WAY too long have kept this beautiful music shut away from the world....
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