"I wondered if there is anyone performimg on the UK folk circuit who you do admire? Under the age of say... 45? "
Paul - out of touch with the UK scene but I can put you in touch with several hunderd youngsters singing and playing traditional music within five miles of here to an excellent standard - how about you?
I can also name you several excellent UK singers who have thrown up ther hands and left the scene in depair of what's happening.
"As ALL the original trad verses are in there! "
They probably are - but you have to clamber over a heap of intrusive noise to get to hear it - including what sounds suspiciously like two people fighting with wooden swords.
The accomanpiment is overbearing, there is, as afar as I can see, no intrepretation other than an occasional theatrical stab at one, and the rap is a joke that plummets the whole thing into meaningless mush - IMO,of course.
Words are of no use if you can't follow them close enough to make sense of the plot.
Jim Carroll