Artful Codger may be right but he reminds me that, in past years, when acquaintances found out I was 'into' folk music they'd often say "Oh, yes, I've got a Burl Ives/Kingston Trio/Peter, Paul & Mary/Bushwackers/etc album at home!" (The choice of artist pretty accurately indicated their age.) They seemed to believe that this enabled them to both rank my activities/performances as well as have an opinion worth listening to on the entire folk music scene. I could usually accept aspects of their ranking but the latter bit 'was' rather interesting.

This CD will probably be a similar broadside before the swarming boarding party of newbies who will rank all of our expertise as so much waffle. To the extent that it introduces loads of them to an informed participation we must be thankful, but.... Shiver me timbers and spare me their criticisms. Then again, I might learn something great.

Cheers, Rowan