harsh Mr Hoot!

To be honest, I think i like the English version of blues and r and b - more than the American really.
More urbane, literate and with links to European cabaret and (it has to be said - though hotly disputed by the thickos of this world) links to our folk music. St James Inf. and the Unfortunate Rake being a good case in point.

really its more like real folk music than most current English folk music. that's why so many folkbands (Bellowhead, Steeleye Span) borrow from it.