"I cannot understand why the BBC wheels out B.Bragg for his opinions on "folk" music or any other music for that matter. He is not especially qualified in that field."

Billy Bragg is HIGHLY qualified to give his opinion in this field. As well as being one of the finest songwriters of this, or any other era, he once stood in as a Waterson on some of their gigs in the early 80's. Now, I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that that's a pretty good qualification!

"Between Marx and Marzipan in the dictionary, there was Mary'