Indifference and contempt.

The only examples of that are in Jim's dismissal of contemporary folk.

Michael. My 95% of people enjoying folk in more than just tit trousers barking out something about squires and wenches is based on painstaking research over many milliseconds. Notwithstanding as I said before, you can get bloody good roses from decent cow shit.

I suspect I personally have a nostalgic affection for an unaccompanied dirge or two, same as I have for many contemporary folk songs. Some of my more recent album purchases? Latest offerings from many heroes of mine. Mostly writing their own songs, mostly typical folk artistes yet by Jim's arbitrary definition using his particular narrow experience, not folk.

Fucking absurd.