Hey Betsy, where can I hear the song? I'd love to add it to my repertoire. I'm in agreement with you, El Greko, Vin, and Villan. Folk Clubs aren't damaged by the enthusiastic amateurs, or by the 'beginners', or by someone occasionally doing 'Streets Of London', but they ARE damaged by the Folk Nazis who try to lay their own petty, self-conceived rules on a musical genre that evolved naturally, without any rules, over centuries. Mind you, the Nazis tried to rule the roost in the middle of the last century didn't they, and look what happened to them. Elitist Extremists never learn the lesson that history repeatedly gives them because their psyche is such that they're incapable of understanding the simple fact that they don't have a God-given monopoly on being right.

Countess, you may be a writer (come on, identify yourself so we can check that claim out) but being a writer lends no greater validity to YOUR opinions than anyone else's expressed in this thread, and others I've read on a similar theme. I assume you've heard of a tome entitled 'Mein Kampf', or perhaps even read it (I have)? Lots and lots of words - absolute tripe. Sound like anyone we know?

Oh, and Mike, if you're reading this (although God knows why you should bother!) - take no notice of the moaners, it's really easy to criticise but far more difficult to deliver. They'll only be happy when you've been driven out and it's wall-to-wall Westlife and Christina Aguilera. Oh joy!

IMHO
Johnny :0)