Amazing how a thread on music can degenerate into a political slanging match so quickly - and how it can drag supporters of the crypto-fascist Ukip out of the woodwork - the attacks of France on France here verge on the downright racist - is "the fact that they lost every war" really a condemnation of a nation - sounds like a terminal case of 'Little Englandism' to me?
C'mon Mike - you used to have something useful and interesting to ay about folk song when I read you regularly.
Jim Carroll