Dazbo: interesting what you say. It's a fact that many people didn't like it at all when they first heard it, but it has actually become very fashionable now and highly praised, extraordinarily so for a very simple record. Funny thing, fashion. I think it was probably Eliza Carthy's championing of the record that started the ball rolling.
   The backlash is starting, though: I'm told, though I haven't seen it, that English Dance and Song magazine has given a bit of a drubbing to my new one(the reissue of the 1978 "Beggar Boy of the North"). Paying the price for reissuing juvenilia, I suppose. Forgive me, I knew not what I did. Or it might be because my EFDSS membership has lapsed. Please buy my records, people, then I will have enough money to renew my subscription.