AND.....there are those up their own arses types in the folk world who so bitterly resent anyone who's 'made it' commercially that they will do all they can to suppress conversation about those artists....

They despise those artists coming into the folk world, as can be seen above...saying they are 'using it' for their own ends...

Seth Lakeman and his brothers had this, Cara, Kate (although she was kind of forgiven by some because she didn't sign with Warner Brothers)...Steve Knightley too....

"They are not of 'us'!"

Well, sod 'us'......there is only 'WE', Joe.

And if people make it, if their music becomes deeply loved and appreciated by many, then everyone should be joyful!

I have joy in my soul when I LISTEN to this music. THAT is where my joy comes from. I don't play an instrument, but my ears are my own instrument, because from them, when they are filled with this music, comes *my* own music...and my music is my WORDS!


SHEESH!!

WHY do I always have to justify myself? Why can I not be left free to simply LOVE the music in my own way.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings