hi again sil..

i'd be curious enough to risk a few quid on a donovan gig ticket
if he ever plays theatre in town where i live..

by the time i was 16 i realised i could'nt be patient enough
to learn to fingerpick as good as him,
so went electric and mastered power chords and riffs instead..
never looked back since..

but in the early - mid 70's the likes of donovan and lindisfarnes
media and pop-chart high profile success
introdued me and many of my generation to folk music
and a lifetimes appreciation of its multivarious genres and personalities..

so even though i despise glossy lifestyle media magazine culture,
fair play if the current trend for filling a few column inches
with hack journalistic 'intro to folk' articles
has a similar influence on todays emerging teenage music enthusiasts..

ps.. i reckon there must be more than a few home recorded DVDs of that
BBC4 donovan gig floating around within reach of mudcatters by now..