Observer - What is extra hilarious about grumpy stick-in-the-mudcatters
is how their lack of tolerance
paints them into inescapable corners of their own making...

When all is said and done, my personal tastes in trad folk are probably just as fundementalist as 'yours',
perhaps even more so..
Yet I can balance it with a healthy respect for other genres of music...

The 'punk' & 'rocker' in my mudcat ID still triggers some mudcatters into irrational kneejerks
that the outside world is beisieging their inpenetrable acoustic folk safe-room...???
Their paranoia locks them into all sorts of obstinate fearful prejudiced misconceptions
regarding modern popular music culture.

..and to think "punkfolkrocker" was just a disposable piss take name I quickly thought up
for a one off post here 15 years ago...
[I didn't even like it much as an ID...]

Then I began to realise the power that name had in weeding out the old miserable sods
who were so ready and quck to overreact and stamp down on all that was new,
threatening and uncomfortable to them...

I soon got to know who was who here...
..and those who deserved to be taken seriously with respect...

I'll be 60 soon, I wonder what will upset me as much in 5 - 10 years
if I'm still a living breathing mudcatter,
and any young people join with their even fresher startling unsettling ideas
about how they enjoy their 'folk' music...???