With all respect, Snail - I do think you miss the point. Dick has a head full of ideas and they define him as an artist. He has a perfect right to those ideas.

he has a website, you can the general drift of his thoughts from a quick look there.

Where we differ is that I have always been the weird shit vaguely tolerated in folk clubs. I know what I would have to do to be inside the tradition, but for various reasons choose not to conform. so I am probably seen in the same light as people totally unaware of the tradition who come along and sing Oasis, Damien Rice etc.

Strangely enough by calling himself a jazz singer, I think Dick has had a quick glimpse of life outside the tradition - where the validity of one's work and working ideas are relentlessly called into question and challenged.