Go and listen to the second side of Pentangle's "Cruel Sister" immediately!

Great music can have crap words though; for every Mark E Smith and Ian Curtis there's a Pete Sinfield and Jon Anderson. Mind you I can't fault Blackleg Miner as a piece of Idiomatic Trad - bet he couldn't have passed of Jack Orion so easily (which is probably why he didn't) although I've had arguments regarding its authorship in the past. Either way, it's one 97-verse ballad I could do without. Talking of which, I've been asked to take on the thankless task of running the ballad session at The Durham Folk Party this year, but that deserves a thread on its own I guess for me to outline the nature of the thing...

Now back to Kraftwerk!