"How many hours have we spent ripping chunks off each other because your experience of clubs was that they were the problem?"
Oddly enough Don, my complaint has been (a) going to clubs and hearing 'Danny Boy' et al, sung badly, and (b) not hearing ballads (or folk songs, as I understand them) sung at all.
Over the last fifteen years I don't think I have heard half a dozen ballads sung in all, and most of them were by singers who made a half-decent job of them.
Maybe bad singers just avoid ballads in places I have been to.
Jim Carroll
PS HOw do you do italics on this forum - I've never been able to?