Its not bile. I really think Irvine's set would have benefited from a guitar. Three different sized bouzoukis with a phase pedal were no substitute, and I am quite conversant with and appreciative of, his work. He can play the guitar, why not?

I think the point I am trying to make is that Carhty and the Watersons were meaning to be confrontational to a world that saw Peter Paul and Mary as the voice of folk music in the 1960's.


However somehow folk music lost the sensibility of the common folk, and never found it again.