"I for one am getting pretty angry.........."
Having endured well over half a lifetime of such facile bollocks as 'finger in ear', 'purist', 'folk police' and all the other 'highly intellectual' summings up of my opinions, I feel myself totally justified to lose my patience occasionally and retaliating in kind, so please - please feel free to get as angry as you wish. If my using the term 'snigger snogwriter' gets up the right noses GOOD - perhaps it might go some way to putting an end to this infantile crap so we can all debate and share our ideas and opinions like adults.
Thank you SO'P (can't speak for the rest of the trio, but I'm not sure I answer to the 1954 folkies description, though I appreciate your kind words).
Jim Carroll