I'm not 100% with Al here...

Yes, the commercial fodder on the telly etc with Simon Cowell & co is dire from a skill concept most if the time, but if Fred Bloggs and his family enjoy that more, how can you force them to spend money to see an old bloke from Retford stick a finger in his ear and croon about herring trawlers?

Enjoying your music for its heritage, simplicity or the sound it makes is a very different proposition to playing it to get rich, feed the kids or, as in Joe's case, get laid.

Joe. Learn some of my songs, the chicks dig it.....