My confusion in my last posting was obviously caused by Houston Diamond having a sudden name change to 'The Problem' - that together with coming onto the thread after sinking 6 or 7 pints of strong ale down at the pub did't help! Sorry about that.

Didn't know you could just change your identity on Mudcat like that and that it would show on all previous member posts and am confused why anyone would wish to do that.

Azizi, sorry to offend you again but may I politely refer you to my original request when I opened this thread :

"I'm not looking for an over-intelligent debate here about the meaning and history of folk and its interpretation of traditional and non traditional folk.
Definately not. Just your from the heart feelings about what sucked you into the folk scene in the first place and why you've stayed with it.."

Too often I have found that too much heavy intellectualised debate on mudcat threads just gets lost in its own cleverness and ends up completely tied in knots.
It also puts other people off from posting to the thread because they feel that they will be shot down in flames by a barrage of long words or unable to share the same intellectual and moral high ground.
The result is that such discourse tends to monopolise the thread and strays far from the original intent of its instigator.

That's all I am saying. Just a plea to get back to the roots of the thread and lighten up its content and its atmosphere.