I can remember having a similar sort of discussion when the Spinners finally hung up their sports casual leisure wear. Some people really loathed the Spinners, but they were popularisers. I can't think of any other act who could get The bleacher lass of Kelvinhall onto mainstream television Pebble Mill at One or whatever. we have enough purists to fill all the passenger lists on the Titanic. The popularisers are the people who stop our folksongs getting 'lost to the general public'. They gave the folk revival its vitality, And they're pretty thin on the ground at the moent.