The trouble with paranoia, Jim is that they're still out to get you.

I just love the way you have attached such value to what was going on in isolated gypsy sites, etc, - without even noticing you have cavalierly dismissed the greater population of Britain as being incapable of producing folk music you can can ascribe any value to.

I'm sorry you feel this way, but in three lengthy and quite seriously intended contributions to mudcat in the last two days - I hav outlined my opinions. they are not based on malice, but rather they are the working ideas I have utilised as abase for my songwriting in a folk idiom for around 30 years.

Other people have more profitably used and conformed to the traddie route - perhaps I am a bit jealous. But it doesn't mean I'm wrong.