oh well - what we've got to is pretend that jazz never evisted - none of have ever heard Louis Armstrong, Django Rhejnhardt, Miles Davis.
forget the songs our parents danced to, and they sang whilst washing the dishes, and falling in love.

totally ignore our roots, because you reckon the key to folk music is a few fishernen and gypsies living on the fringes of the fringes of society. songs delivered in a way that as Woody Guthrie said about his own delivery -soda jerks would think the radio's broken - if the radio played my records.

can you really not see why folk club have an army of divisive argumentative characters sharing such views strategically placed in every gathering called a folk club have all but wrecked a flowering of working class creativity in the mid '60's?

you are of course entitled to a view of folk music - but you weren't and aren't entitled to get this snotty with everyone who didn't agree with you and MacColl's vision.