Ruth,

True, but I'm thinking of the real bad old days in the 60s and 70s when the revival was uncomfortably claustrophobic in its approach to music. The era could be summed up by one nutter who complained about "foreign" folk music being broadcast on Folk on 2 (I think). "I felt like a foreigner in my own country".

Wouldn't it be grand if black people could be persuaded to dig the Carolina Chocolate Drops.