"but of course you are unable to show us."
I have, a dozen times Dick
There was long correspondence in the folk press at the time - then there was a rapid decline in the number of clubs - then the folk shops and labels disappeared - then the folk press itself dwindled down to half nothing
Finally the clubs began to bomb

I believe this was down to two things
THose going out to look for folk song at the clubs were coming away from many without hearing a folk song - their choice of what they wanted to hear had been removed
THere is a certain stupidity in the assumption that people who like The Rambling Blade and Banks of the Nile would be happy to sit through poor versions of Buddy Holly songs

THe second reason - in my opinion, was that the standers of performance bombed; the crib sheets that began to suggest that 'singers' were not even bothering to learn the songs - now we have them being read fom obile phones and I-pads
What do you suggest happened?
Jim Carroll