Eliza C may not be the very best violin player the world has ever seen but she's pretty damn good. And she plays for trad dance and in sessions and even with the likes of me, knows millions of tunes and is generous in passing them on.

It's about five years I think since I joined Mudcat in order to post under a pseudonym cos I was scared of getting slagged off. Didn't work. The reason I joined? A thread entitled Jim Moray: The New Face Of Folk.

Musicians that the mainstream press latch onto are rarely 'new'. Both Jim and Liza were performing (though not exactly 'professionally') at Sidmouth over 20 years ago. I first saw Liza doing a paid gig in about 1994. Each has put in many years of practice and playing. I really think we can do without someone coming along and claiming 'Jinky Wells was a better fiddler' cos he clearly wasn't. More idiosyncratic perhaps but . . .