just back from doing a gig.
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playing to people who were definitely folk.

played a folk guitar.

mainly using fingerpicking techniques learned from acknowledged folk artists.

mainly playing songs that haven't been in the record charts for fifty - some not ninety years. songs which remain obdurately in most English peoples heads - despite never being on the telly. they do that without a special society to protect them, arts council grants, special programs on BBC4. These songs, they have no special festivals - you don't have to go to a gypsy encampment, or buy a June Tabor cd - you know these songs. they are the spare change clanking around in every English persons brain.

got the taxonomy blues Mike old man
As usual , I'll shit in the sink and watch the 3 o'clock Jeremy Kyle.
I wonder if I described myself as a folksinger, I'd fail the all important lie detector.