dunno why GUEST,Paul Burke has singled out and seized upon my hastily phrased casual observation
for such close scrutiny..???

..there's plenty enough other willing regular axe-grinding combatants at mudcat
happily willing to indulge in endless circular pointless pedantic OCR hair-splitting
amateur cultural academic word 'definition' games...


here's one to kick off..

hows about 'amateur' versus 'amateurish' ???


personally, I wouldn't satisfy any of johncharles opening 5 point criteria..

well maybe no 2 just a bit ?


However, I'm probably far more suited for consideration in the furthest netherworld
of the 'outsider artist' spectrum of unpaid indie 'Folk' music....