well for my money, the fault lines were pretty much in English folk reveial from day one. from that first day Cecil sharp heard that bloke singing in his garden.. you can bet your ass, he wasn't the sort of bloke he would have invited round to a supper party.

similarly when the guys like Lonnie Donnegan and Donovan were interesting a mass audience in expressing themselves through folk music - the middle classes soon put a damper on that.

History will I am sure will write up that episode as merely one set of artists being jealous of the commercial viability one another set of artists. The 'English folk music for the English' is utterely transparent nowadays when we can see how eclecticism, and indeed fashion, is the very motor that drives along the voice of te people.

Class infects every facet of your life, if you're English. the folk revival was just another casualty.