It matters because lots of young and old people are trying to express themselves in a vernacular type of music, but in England the only way you will reviewed in the folk magazines and on folk radio is aping the music of fifty or a hundred years ago.

There will be no record of the folk music of our time, because the people that were charged with the resposibility of presenting it(in many cases with public funds) decided they would run a sort of geriatric social club instead.

for every Pink and similar artist there are dozens of people inspired by them - their work explaining what it was like to live in our modern age - will be gone forever.