Okay lets put it this way. Go to any folk festival in England. The songwriters session. No ones there. theres ALWAYS some bloke or woman (someone you've never heard of) turns up and sing some songs which absolutley knock your socks off. Thats it you never hear of them again - and never from the mainstage.

There no one there because the powers that be (mags, arts council, tv, radio, popularity chart) are always flogging to death the same old, same old.

What made the 1960's buzz was not the Beatles and Stones but the thirty or forty other British bands which came up with hit records of genius. And they only got heard of because, Denmark St (the power on that demesne) lots its grip for a while.

Frankly we need a similar cataclysm in the world of folk music.

Wasting my sodding energy restating this stuff once more - why do I bother.