Err ... thanks Robbie. I suppose you mean that you agree with me. (You left out broadside ballads.)

WLD : I sincerely hope that whoever wrote Sir Pat got a sackful of .. umm ... sack, and a double dose of dubloons. It becomes morally objectionable when the stuff a professional agent is promoting is predictable and derivative mass-produced garbage, pushed onto a subservient public which knows no better because it never hears no better.

I know, and I'm sure everybody else who contributes here knows as well, any number of talented and interesting singer/songwriters who are miles superior to the rubbish which floods our airwaves, but whose listening public is restricted to a few score of appreciative folk at their local club. You might even be one yourself.

But I fear we are drifting off-thread. Wanna start a new one?