I'm just so glad that the Corries can still raise peoples' emotions after all these years. They were GREAT ENTERTAINERS! But they also inspired a lot of people to get into folk music and delve into its traditions and write in the folk idiom. It'a all a bit airy-fairy going on about whether they were really folk-artists. without the Corries most folk in Scotland would never have been exposed to the Border Ballads and Burns' love songs.
    I knew and had the good fortune to work with Roy and he was a damned fine musician and very knowledgeable about Scottish folk tradition. I also loved the Dubliners though most of the time, I think they would admit this, they were , as we say half-cut, but never did it stop them giving a good performance. It was a way of life and they thrived on it.
    In conclusion I would like us all to raise a glass and toast "The Corries, for ever!