According to the BBC radio 2 message board, the Folk Roots editor theorised that the Daughters Of Albion was not meant to attract people into folk music but to get folk fans to broaden their horizons, this is Ian Anderson talking about the ' kings new clothes ' again, ie. if we don't like it we are the stupid ones, this was exactly his attitude about so called ' world music, [ which incidently, meant anything except British folk music ]

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