WLD,

I still struggle to get my head round what you're trying to say. I think that you wish that there was still a living tradition in this country - a tradition which is relevant to today, but which has continuity with the past (correct me if I'm wrong!). I think that you blame 'traddies' who go to folk clubs, like me for example, for this state of affairs(?)

I actually think that it is more complicated than that and has much more to do with the nature of modern commercial, popular culture than with the presence of a few 'dinosaurs' like me. Are you sure you're not singling out a group to blame because the world is not as you would wish it to be?

You see, in some ways I agree with you (!) - I wish that there was a continuous tradition as well. And I also agree with your post of the 30th April about the (probably unintended) effect of Lloyd's book on the direction of the Folk Revival.
Also, if it's any comfort, much of the way that trad. song has been presented, by certain 'leading lights' of the post-war Revival, pisses me off to!