My views are possibly slightly right of centre these days

~~ tho not nearly so much so as some like Shaw, Woodson, Carroll, Bridge, who have taken it on themselves to turn virulently and unaccountably abusive because I couldn't go all the way along with all their explicitly and avowedly left-oriented asseverations, have appeared to assume ~~

but my tastes [like those of my dear dead friend Peter Bellamy, cited above by Jack Campin] are quite definitely towards the traditional, not in accord with Guest Tony's "impression ... that conservatives who are inclined toward folk music usually go with country-western/bluegrass instead".

As Acorn remarks above,"You don't have to support hunting to sing a hunting song any more than you have to be a psychopath to sing a murder ballad" - I remember Norma Waterson, whom I was interviewing back in the 1970s along with Martin Carthy for Folk Review, using exactly this example in relation to her own opinions and singing practice.

~M~