The revival kicked off in the 1950s and right up to the 90s it was still possible to select a club and go and listen to a night of folk music and song well performed in most parts of Britain - hardly a brief generationally isolated flowering.

I thought the revival kicked off in 1903 when C# had his Epiphany upon hearing John England's singing of Seeds of Love? Actually there's a touching illustration of this seminal moment in The Ladybird Book of Music if anyone has a copy at hand. Classic stuff! The moment the indigenous music of the working class intersected with the cultural sensibilities of the bourgeoisie who've been trying to sanitise it ever since.

Sorry - I believed for one foolish minute that the scrabble for fair play for the performers might - just might have included the people who gave us our raw material - should have known better!!

Abso-fecking-lutely; this has been my point all along here. As I said back on 04 Jan 10 - 05:22 AM:

Seems odd for a music founded on the bootlegging of Traditional Singers to take such a high attitude to bootlegging in general. It still goes on - The Voice of the People series, and the forthcoming CDs from The Kennedy Archive - material hitherto knocked out on shoddy cassettes & CD-R editions for top-whack. Seems the ideal place for such recordings is on-line, as with the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - freely available to one and all, with complete notes. But no; we'll get them packaged up in deluxe digitally remastered re-edited editions purporting to be an improvement on the Kennedy editions - and available only to those who are prepared to shell out top-whack all over again...