Hemingway said if you go to war often enough, you'll get killed.

If you stay in this business long enough, you will be criticised - most of the time very unfairly by people who know nothing of the constraints imposed on you by reality when you make the idealistic committment to be a musician.

I don't see the necessity for personal attacks in a little piece of cyberspace which is really the domain and bailliewick of musicians.

We can disagree about the nature of folk music, but personal slanders we can do without.