I was chatting a long time to John - trying to make suggestions I hoped were helpful - but asking me about traddie stuff is like asking the Pope about contraception.

He was great - stuff like The lakes of Ponchartrain and Polly on the Shore that you have heard attempted by all the worlds biggest gits and aphasic amnesiacs - done absolutely faultlssly as though they were written yesterday. A beautiful tenor voice and lots of little folk baroque (almost Jansch like) ornamentations from the harmonium.

He really has got his shit together musically. Apparently he plays guitar as well. Its so refreshing. He hasn't got a website. So often nowadays, people have all the apparatus in place but none of the substance. I wish he'd have said some stuff to introduce his material - he was very full on. But that was just cos I wanted them to like and understand him.