Does it occur to any of you kneejerkers that the quote The decades following Jones's accident were largely barren for British folk music didn't refer to the quality of music being made, but to any recognition and success that traditionally-based folk was able to achieve outside its own inward-looking scene. With a few exceptions like the emergence of Kathryn Tickell in the late '80s, it wasn't until Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby etc started gaining substantial mainstream respect in the late 90s that this altered in any substantial way.

Billy Bragg, Pogues, Boothill Foottappers etc were great to see happen in the 80s, but they were hardly flying the flag for the same area of music as Nic, Carthy, Coes, Kirkpatricks etc inhabited.It took another generation to come along before that really happened.