true enough Dave.
The thing is though, crap contemporary singers are - apart from the care in the community aspect, and I suppose the educational aspect (the 'singers have to start somewhere' argument) just a pain in the arse to be endured.

The traddy faction however claims a sort of moral high ground. "The only bad thing you can do, is not sing these songs" - one has heard said.
I like singing traditional songs. I don't know how to do the long ballads though. I love Carthy's guitar riff on Famous Flower of Serving Men - but I know I'm not good enoughto do anything but bore the arse off an audience if I attempted it. I know that because I tried to do one of the long songs - Tony Rose's performance inspired me to have a go at Thorneymoor Woods. I was shit.

As Clint Eastwood said - a man should know his limitations. Fortunately Clint isn't there to shoot folksingers who don't. Otherwise I would have been dead.