the picture of Bert Jansch on the cover of the blue album - almost the epitome of cool.

Apparently not Jim, it was PPM, who furnished that song for the Frost and Fire album. They were very eclectic in those days. The first time I saw them, they sang High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire - a poem by Jean Ingelow.

Ring out! Ring out! you Boston bells

boston is my hometown - the reason I remembered it.

you know others of us have spent fifty years doing folk music - performing, teaching techniques, putting on folk clubs, turning up. with the best will in the world -why do you feel you have sovereign rights. Jesus said his fathers house had many mansions - why do you feel folk music is a one bedroom flat?