Jim Carroll

Some time ago Bryan Creer was good enough to point out that it really wasn't our decision, and our real committment was to the people we recorded and those who might appreciate what we were lucky enough to find. So yes - we hope to get down to work as soon as the transcriptions are complete.

Indeed I did Jim. My comment was in response to a remark by you something like "better to leave it on the shelf" which I felt was a betrayal of the trust of all the people you had collected from.

I am delighted to hear of all the work you have doen to bring Mikeen McCarthy's songs and stories to a wider audience. I wish you would tell us more about that sort of thing instead of banging on about how the whole UK folk scene is moribund because a Glasgow club finished the evening with Travelling Light and Living Doll. If it was all that bad, why did you stay to the end?

"Is it worth the effort - who gives a toss"?

Lots of people give a toss, like the packed house that turned out for Tommy Peoples at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club last weekend and all the people who turned up for Tom Spiers, Arthur Watson and Tom Shepheard at the Royal Oak last night. Don't let the incoherent ramblings of glueman and SO'P make you think it isn't worth it.