My first folk club was Harry's (Clarendon Oxford Rd.) and then I was closely involved with Folk Union One in its early days when The Watersons turned professional. so I suspect I may have been spoiled. "A song I wrote myself" were words you rarely heard.

Yeah, I was around then, and I heard those words from Alex Campbell, Matt Mcginn, Ewan McColl, Ian Campbell, Leon Rosselson, Cyril Tawney,
Paul Simon, Ralph Mctell,and countless others. Maybe the words you rarely, or maybe didn't want to hear, were the words that set me afire.
You may not want the writers in "your" folk clubs but they were there then and they're there now and their work is a priceless legacy.
I find it so sad that the young people who come to some of you with their songs, immature and self-centered though they may be, are dismissed with such disdain, instead of being encouraged to broaden their vision and progress.