Well, I have had a lovely 4 days off, part of which included listening to Nick Dow's marvelous 'A poor man's gift' and watching the DVD he sent me showing what we had before folk clubs ;-)

Surprised to see the same arguments are being bandied about and not at all surprised that Joe has spotted the circular argument syndrome creeping in. It is things like Jim's comment of 27 Oct 17 - 12:45 PM that keep this things going.

I appear to have erected a hurdle nobody has been able toi get over, what kind of songs should one expect to find in a folk club?

I have addressed that point on 27 Oct 17 at 10:54 AM and, as I predicted, Jim did not like the answer so responded with some daft comment about selling frocks.

Ah well.

DtG