"the critics dutifully cream their jeans"

How wonderfully expressive, I know exactly what you mean. Spare us please the sycophantic, saccharin sweetness of the music luvvies who would never have heard of folk music if it was not for the free CD's that come their way and who pander to to the record company moguls who know even less about music than the "critics". It seems that the whole of the commercial side of the business is just one big sticky, smelly heap of PR bullshit. Thank god that nowadays 'home' recorded CD's are of such good quality (sound wise, if not always content) that the major producers can be sidelined.

I can only suggest that Guest Guest keeps watching this space as it seems to me that if someone new and good hits the clubs he/she will soon have their virtues extolled on the Mudcat.