Guest DB I agree with you. You've missed my point which was that what you and I consider quality will never be popular with the general public and that it's daft to think it ever will.
Ake I agree that we need to bring the lighter side back before the general public. Daughters of Albion was a wake!
As to the editor of Folk Roots, he's a failed musician who couldn't survive in the 70's folk world and he's vented his spleen on all those who have been successful performers doing what he couldn't do, particularly the songwriters of that era.