'But the Kweskin Jug Band, Van Ronk's Jug Stompers, the Even Dozen Jug Band, and others, were hugely popular in folk clubs. That is where they played.'

Yes you're talking about America though, and really you're talking about another era. English folk music nowadays from top to bottom has compulsory Anglicisms in it. I suppose in a way, its become more xenophobic. there are references to other music forms - reggae, bhangra even, jazz even - but there is always this insistence on a baseline of Englishness - and of course with that comes all that bloody class system, and feudalism.

What appeals to me in this music is the edginess. I was at a jazz club last night and I think I was the youngest person there and I'm 62. I had this awful feeling that if Bix had entered that room - he would have thought, my god no! this is not what its about. Whatever else these guys were, they weren't conservatives - they were revolutionaries. like Waylon said about country music, are you sure Hank done it this way?