Dylan and Baez were role models for a lot of us. by and large it was the young girls with long hair, strumming guitars and singing Silver Dagger and Come all You fair and Tender Maidens, and young guys with caps and harmonica stands that hooked me. And of course it followed you home. How many thousands of Joan Baez sogbooks and Penguin Book of American Folk songs found their way onto students bookshelves..

Certainly the first timr I heard of Ewan MacColl was seeing his songs in Oak Publications,

A lot of traddies in those days spent their precious minutes onstage rubbishing the Amrican contemporary stuff. But 80% of their audience had been drawn in by the Dylan/Seeger/Baez input.

Thank you Dave Carter for the nice things you say about my album. The thing is that many of the stronger songs are now politically unacceptable. I play my guitar and sing folk/country /Irish stuff - but I don't feel at homr in folk clubs any more, and never sing my old songs. I'm hoping the film will guve me a frisson of rememberance of a time when folk clubs seemed to offer a channel of self expression.