Please stop digging - this is getting embarrasing.

No digging here, old man - just saying what I've been saying all along in this thread - and others, that whilst I've always loved his ballad singing (apart from a brief crisis a couple of weeks back detailed below) I find the rest of his work rather mediocre musically and soiled by political polemic. In my view, he is most certainly not a musical genius - just a canny ballad singer. The occasion I saw him was one of the most bitterly disappointing concerts I've ever seen - there I was expecting Thomas the Rhymer, instead I got preached at for an hour about the correct political response to Apartheid illustrated by some of the worst self-penned songs I've ever heard. Now that was embarrassing.

None of which, of course, has anything to do with the topic of the thread.