I dunno. Which ever age its done in - folk on television, and the radio really - is always pretty dire.

I was married at the start of the 1970's so the only time I had to sit through The Spinners or The Corries on telly, or Val Doonican was when I went to visit my parents.

Actually you've brought it all back to me. i can remember sitting in aged parents house (they were about fifty at the time!) watching the Corries in their leather waistcoat/harness things and wondering if they were wearing leather underpants. Do they really do really do bondage.....one couldn't help thinking.

Anyway, I think the place for folk music is the folk clubs.