read thru those comments and I think I'd picked up on all the points- thanks for alerting me to that thread. I wanted to see mighty wind when it first surfaced , but a member of my family is disabled so its the first time its been available in a cinema that is easily accessible.

Fascinating to read how Americans have related to it. Iguess folk music must have had roughly the same staus as trad jazz in this country - it was round about what was the trad jazz boom era in England - that most of our American friends are talking about.

I don't think folk music had such a potent grasp on college kids imaginations in our country - or maybe it was that only very few people of that era in England had any tertiary education.

Folk seemed to go into overdrive in England - maybe about 1964. Perhaps I'm mistaken. I remember Pete Seeger doing the Pallladium show and playing Freight train on a 12 string and his hit Little boxes.

I'm trying to remember - there were a few folk singers like Steve Benbow sometimes getting on telly and that gang that did the Tonight programme. Also I remember Josh White's visits to England - but for most of us in the provinces, I don't think folk music had crashed into our consciousness in quite the same way that the film implies it did do in America.

Anyway I'd love to hear anybody else's recollection of that era.