Here's your blue clicky, CC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ooFHRI5U8w

Which is all very nice I suppose, but tell me, what has this got to do with Elle Osborne? Futile comparisons, chalk and fecking cheese, and utterly irrelevant besides. It's like me coming on and saying I never liked Hendrix overmuch because he didn't do much by the way of Barque Oboe Sonatas. In life we do good to cherish the differences and celebrate the uniqueness of what truly gifted & creative visionary people have to offer. And best we cherish Elle for doing what she does in the name of Folk, thus offering hope for a genre that is mired in MOR identikit blandness from the bottom up and pays little respect to the Tradition it supposedly emerged from. Elle does pay respect to the Tradition, using it to empower something very special indeed and well worth cherishing.

Enough with the aural baby rice already, eh? This music matters.

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but really couldn't be arsed in the face of such appalling ignorance spewing forth from srothman

Me too, BE; I left it a few days but srothman's last post urged me to make a stand - not just for Elle, but for the Tradition she represents which is sadly all too absent from the Folk world today - even in the work of many of those who do pay lip-service to The Old Singers, what comes out falls into the category of Aural Baby Rice to confirm the worst myths of the last 50 years of a scene that invariably turns its back on its greatest assets.

No one has to like everything, but to post here in the name of some Absolutist Taste is just noxious in the extreme. Sadly, in many areas of folk, such Taste Fascism is the order of the day. Mmmmm - baby rice! The blander the better... None of that nasty Marmite...