Sedayne - yes, it's a bit of a culture shock hearing Benjamin Zephaniah's version of Tam Lin, but for a lot of people in the 60s it was a culture shock to hear the Fairport version.

Martin Carthy talking on Front Row on the subject of using amplification pretty well summed up the eclecticism of it all.

I think it's great that English trad songs are still being reinterpreted by artists from other genres, even when I don't like their particular version.

Kitty