Pip - you slightly miss the point I was trying to make. For me, personally, some of these songs speak volumes and are things of great beauty that articulate all manner of human emotion and experience. On the other hand, why is it that when I pop a folk CD on the player, the normal response from most of my friends - and they're nearly all music fiends of one kind or another - is not to be able to get beyond the 'funny voices' or 'archaic language' or 'odd tunes' or 'strange instruments' or horrors upon horrors utter lack of instruments? This isn't an isolated response. It's what I've come to expect. Traditional music sounds like it is made by aliens, so it would seem. This doesn't happen when I play them James Blackshaw or Nancy Wallace or The Accidental or Mary Hampson or many of the singer songwriter/nu-folk/Green Mannish albums I also have lurking on my miseryPod (TM). Hmmm...