Just bought the dvd of Richard Thompson's 1,000 years of popular music.I know he is an icon for a lot in the folk scene.So fair play to him for his efforts to put over a wide range in this project.I have always thought folk folk giving boundaries as to what is cool and what is not was wrong.Well,Richard doing songs made popular by Bowling for Soup and Brittany Spears,with full vocal accompaniment by the whole audience brought a boad smile to my face.Nothing should be out of bounds in music and he went a long way to proving that.Keep it up Richard even if it was tongue in cheek.