Big Al Whittle -
"no Jim.
you have decided quite arbitrarily that you are going to decide what folk music is and what standards are to be applied.
furthermore you are regularly bloody rude to anyone who disagrees with you. Your description of Jez Lowe as a cabaret singer was insulting beyond measure. Derek Brimstone 's folk guitar and banjo style would stand alongside and bear comparison with any of the Seegers, not just Peggy. That measure of accomplishment in an age when tuition was not readily available required dedication beyond belief. facile...lets see you attempt that sort of facility!

serious discussion of Ewan MacColl....the only person blocking it is you. anything less than reverential awe, trying to understand him as a human, who achieved much - but had feet of clay like the rest of us and you flare up."

 Spot on!