Interesting biog, Al. I've also spent the best part of 45+ years of playing in pubs and clubs and for functions - blues, jazz, rock'n roll, '60s Memphis funk, 1920s dance band music, folk clubs, traditional tunes for ceilidhs. I've only ever played what I've wanted to play. If the music became boring or being played by rote, with no soul to it, I changed tack and went on to something else. Underneath all that was an abiding love in traditional tunes and the guitar and mandolin. So I dipped in and out of folk clubs as the mood took me - but I've never ever called myself a folksinger.

I recall booking Derek Brimstone for the BBC Folk Club (Clanfolk) back in the late '60s. A fascinating and unique character - and one of the first people I ever saw playing Paul MCartney's "Blackbird" in a folk club!