Well, for a start, I don't want any part of the BNP or waffle about "roots" for that matter.

The Folk Revival of the 50s/60s/70s had a strong, left-wing political dimension - but I was never entirely comfortable with that.

At the time that I stumbled across British traditional folk song, in the late 60s, I was becoming increasingly sick of shallow, banal pop music. Traditional songs had a sort of glamour for me because of their, often strong, story lines and their beautiful tunes. I 'got' them, and related to them, immediately. It was a matter of preference - not politics.