I feel my music has been under attack from traddies for the last fifty years. I can't think of anyone apart from me, who plays Blind Lemon Jeffersons Matchbox Blues in the style of Hamish Imlach.

I understand that you don't think it has any value. But this music only ever existed in the English folk clubs -it has no other home.

When you watch that Acoustic Routes video made by Billy Connolly. made 20 years ago - you realise how many of the old guard have gone - Bert, Davy, Brownie McGhee, Hamish, John Martyn,

when its gone I hope you will feel proud of all the scorn you have poured on this great flowering of English folk music. and your part in expelling it from English folk clubs.
You'll still be able to open a ringbinder, or switch on your kindle and sing unaccompanied songs. I don't see any of the future generation who really understand the complex relationship that guitars had with folksong for our generation. well done - you destroyed it.