and long before Kathryn had her children, I was still saying exactly the same thing....and in those days, she was undervalued, having had the stigma of Equation, Warner Brothers and the spite of some of the folk world on her shoulders, as did the Lakemans and Cara Dillon too...

Subject: RE: Eddi Reader - Undervalued?
From: Joe Offer - PM
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 05:58 PM

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Although she's a little crazy and can drive me MORE than a little crazy, I like her.

Joe, I am delighted you tell us you like her. And that she is allowed to post on here. Without restriction. I assume by that, we who disagree with what she writes will have the same rights to post, in order to contradict that which she says, not of habit, or contrariness but because she does not know that which she talks about.

Lizzie I took Kathryn and Kate to a festival in Portugal - on the basis they were tremendous and emerging talents. That was in 1994 and in September, a few weeks later Kathryn became Young Folk Artist of the Year. She was the first singer ever to do so.

Had you discovered folk music at that point? Errr....well according to your posts - no. Your discovery of folk music came a few years later.

So at what point in her career were you saying how she was undervalued? And who was saying she wasn't?

What was the stigma of the folk world? Tell us Lizzie.

A number of us know the story of Kate and Kathryn and Equation far mor intimately than you do Lizzie. We respect our friends which is why we haven't posted any details.

You on the other hand, know it well. After all, you have read it in a book. So it must be correct.