This has thread has a feel of the Biography of Ewan MacColl thread. On that thread people who hadn't read the book gave us the endless pleasure of their opinion. Here we have people passing opinion on a record that, and I could be wrong, they haven't heard.

"this sort of bogus posturing by people who really ought to know better. "

I could be wrong, I often am, but the musicians in question have a very long track record of making interesting, sometimes innovative music because they want to and not because they have calculated a market opportunity.

Now, the crunch, does the music do anything for you?

Well, most of us don't know yet. I enjoyed "Cold Blow the Rainy Night" and bought tickets for the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. I heard Paul Weller singing John Barleycorn and I enjoyed it.