it's not about being a macho man. It's about sounding the way you look and presenting
an acceptable image to a folk audience. They are the ones that pay the bills. As I look
at Causeley I see someone who matches his image with his voice and may not have a bucolic image but certainly a working-man down-to earth image. He doesn't look like something else.

The idea that the public will accept someone who looks oddly out of place with what he/she is doing is not borne out by reality. Appearances are a lot more important than many folkies like to admit because it runs counter to their idea of somehow remaining pure from the trappings of show business.

There are so many conceptions as to what constitutes the look of a folk singer and many may not cross the Pond.

Well Julian Clary! His image is concrete in the public eye. I don't see Causeley anywhere near that image.