Some great lines in this that I most heartily agree with:

Jim Carroll - Date: 23 Oct 14 - 05:59 AM

1: My point is - not particularly with Simpson but all those 'superstars' who made instrumental accompaniment an object in itself rather than what it what it claims to be - 'accompaniment'.

2: I particularly remember one of the electric groups (Steeleye maybe) playing a reel in the middle of a long, narrative ballad - utterly ludicrous!

3: The clubs began to career downhill when they filled with Waterson wannabes, or Joanie clones or Martin mimickers and when singers stopped trying to sound like themselves.

4: The joy of folk singing is giving your own interpretation of a song and not somebody else's - that was the privilege performing in clubs gave us."

WELL SAID!!!