"Because the old ones have gone stale."
I've just been indexing some of the 100 or so recordings we have of folk club evenings recorded in London - some of them going back to the early 1960s.
What still leaps out is the enthusiasm and energy of the performers and audiences - as well as the skill and commitment of all concerned.
We may have been lucky but - they just don't make them like that any more - the proof of the pudding is in the listening.
Jim Carroll