Of course as far as the GREAT scheme of things goes, it doesn't matter if Tim's efforts were folk music. Nobody, except the compulsive obsessives of this world, really needs the universe classifying and tabulating.

The point is that there exists this genus of human being who (lacking talent themselves) worm their way onto committtees of folk festivals and become Radio presenters and journalists - and use their predjudices to block the careers of artists who find Tim Hardin more inspiring as a songwriter than Ewan MacColl.

Bloody pathetic, but that's what most of these Brit arguments about folkmusic boil down to. The muzzling of a few mad dogs who have wrought havoc amongst a generation of artists.