"It really is time to exctracted your collective heads out of your arses and take a look at the damage you've done to traditional music with your crass claims and your crap standards- it's the end result that counts. "

.....and you dare accuse me of sniping from a distance Jim Carroll!! (to be fair I guess that wasn't sniping, it was a full broadside).


"The more of the many diverse and important aspects of folk music that attract attention, the better its chances of survival, and those who argue that all you have to do is sing, need to take a hard, long look around and count up just how many new and young faces are appearing at the geriatric-filled clubs."

um, actually Jim, ours isn't full of geriatrics. But then you've never been to ours have you...... and I doubt many other of the newer clubs either.

But why let the facts get in the way of a good theory?

Trad song is in good health here...... it just has to rub shoulders with other folky forms. It doesn't seem to mind though.