They're always wittering about this & it all depends on what is meant by Folk - generally, alas, not a lot - just more AO/MOR acoustic shite then I'll be happy to continue tuning into Tim Westwood for something with genuine Tradition and Passion and Relevance and Exellence.

HOWEVER... Take Heart!

If 1903 represents Year Zero for Revival #1 (that seminal-seed visionary encounter between Cecil Sharp & John England in the mists of our green & pleasant cultural dreaming) and 1956 represents Year Zero for Revival #2 (when Baby-Boomers hip to the glories of Leadbelly, Guthrie, Holcombe et al began to look to the British source of the American Folk Boom) then by my reckoning this means we're just about on the nail for Revival #3.

Already I think of this as The Post Revival, where we might sweep away the flaccid conceits of Revivals 1 & 2 (with few heroically significant exceptions only going to prove rules - Jim Eldon & Peter Bellamy to name but two) and face The Traditional Archive altogether AFRESH & Entirely Unencumbered by anything resembling Folk Music. We must become Born-Again and stand in Naked Humility before the brilliance of the Old Singers, Musicians and their Songs and go down on bended knee in reverential awe of what they represented which was so cynically pissed upon by the bourgeois / middle-class prissy parlour & MOR niceties of revivals #1 & #2.

The Post-Revival will cut loose from Folk and head into hitherto uncharted waters where folkies fear to tread in dread of sirens and serpents whilst adhering 100% to the perfect principles of Traditional Song & Balladry...

Enough already! But hey, it's okay to dream isn't it?