Let's not forget that this is the same Colin Irwin who described Nic Jones' "Penguin Eggs" album, on it's re-release several years ago, as fine musicianship, applied to dated and irrelevant (i.e. traditional) material. As a folk journalist, Irwin has a good nose for the latest trend, and is always happy to tug his forelock to the aristocracy, but to expect any understanding of the meaning or significance of the tradition would be to overestimate the man.

And did Martin C. *really* say that WH is "in the process of becoming traditional"??