"Donovan etc were being described as the face of folk music."
Yup - me too - a little far from "MacColl was pissed off because he wasn't one of the big names in the great folk scare"
"i take it he wasn't keen on Alex Campbell either."
I honestly never heard him take a pop at any other performer - not publicly anyway, and certainly not in the period I knew him.
After the John Snow meeting, he adopted an isolationist policy and worked with those he believed could make a difference on the folk scene
I confess, when I spoke on The Critics Group at his 70th birthday symposium, it was one of my main criticisms of his wit#k with the Group - in view of the grave-dancing that is still going on thirty years after his death - didn't I get that one wrong!!
Jim Carroll