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McMullen - you are the backbone of the folk genre. However I have to be somewhat dismissive as an oldie - how else can the young tradition mould a niche for themselves unless we disapprove and thereby confirm their personal creative endeavours? As if we tried this in our day. Ha!

What most of us love about folk is the tolerance and breadth it affords. University degrees are just a wider flank. The holders are the tall poppies, but remember what happens to poppies - they can all to easily have a brief summer.

And there is one thing you have we envy - you make us look old when inside we .........